Katie O'Pray — Out-Spoken Press

Katie O’Pray

Katie O’Pray is a poet based in Bedfordshire, who is studying Linguistics & Creative Writing at the University of Hertfordshire. Their work has most notably received recognition from the Magma Poetry Competition and the Out-Spoken Prize for Poetry, as well as being shared in support of The National Survivor User Network and ELFT’s ‘Break the Stigma’ campaign. In 2021, they won the Oxford Brookes International Poetry Competition and were awarded The ruth weiss Foundation’s Emerging Poet Grant.

apricot is their debut collection and received an Eric Gregory Award 2025.

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Wayne Holloway-Smith's list - Seven Book Bundle (Dog Woman, Mother of Flip-Flops, Apricot, A Disbelief of Flesh, Trust Fall, Sad Thing Angry, G&T)

£45.00

All seven of the titles we published under Wayne Holloway-Smith’s editorship, for a special price of £45:

Dog Woman by Helen Quah
Mother of Flip-Flops by Mukahang Limbu
Apricot by Katie O’Pray
A Disbelief of Flesh by Maria-Sophia Christodoulou
Trust Fall by William Gee
Sad Thing Angry by Emma Jeremy
G&T by Oakley Flanagan

apricot by Katie O'Pray

£11.99

*** Winner of an Eric Gregory Award 2025 ***

apricot is a devastating debut from one of the UK’s brightest and most fascinating poets, written with the urgency of someone who knows they might not make it through the weekend.

Katie O’Pray’s is a highly articulate poetics, kicking against the language of convention that would seek to limit us. The improvisational vocabulary at play here engenders both a developed identity and a young identity continuously being made, as each section of the book subverts the questions of mental health practitioners with wisdom and panache.

These poems do not just concern the violence of gender, of sexuality, of disability, of addiction, they reinvigorate how these violences can be understood. This is a collection of singular quality.

apricot - Katie O'Pray (ebook)

£4.99

apricot is a devastating debut from one of the UK’s brightest and most fascinating poets, written with the urgency of someone who knows they might not make it through the weekend. Katie O’Pray’s is a highly articulate poetics, kicking against the language of convention that would seek to limit us. The improvisational vocabulary at play here engenders both a developed identity and a young identity continuously being made, as each section of the book subverts the questions of mental health practitioners with wisdom and panache.

These poems do not just concern the violence of gender, of sexuality, of disability, of addiction, they reinvigorate how these violences can be understood. This is a collection of singular quality.

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