Roots and Routes by Kat François

Degna Stone Library, Sustain

trees routes grow in a network of straight lines, following the cracks between herring-bone paving bricks

We continue our series of essays On Being A Woman Poet with performance artist Kat François’ reflections on her journey towards a life in poetry, the inspirational people and essential spoken word communities that showed her the way… I went to an all-girls inner-city secondary school and many of my teachers tried to steer us towards service careers, such as …