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Join us for a Poetry Adventure with award-winning children's poet Kate Wakeling this February half-term! A playful interactive poetry workshop taking off on Tue 18 Feb 2025, 10.45am Expect baddies, comets and weird cakes! 🤖☄️🧁 Tickets here 👇 southbankcentre.co.uk/whats-on/poetr…

A thrill of the year to have a new poem in The Stinging Fly 🪰 – with warmest thanks to Annemarie Ní Churreáin and Lisa McInerney for including it.

Our Festive Showcase #poetry pick today is 'and a tree' by ⁦Kate Wakeling⁩. It was commissioned by ⁦The Poetry Society⁩ to celebrate the annual gift of a Christmas Tree from Norway to the UK. This year's poem will be revealed tonight, 5 December 🎄 poetrybyheart.org.uk/poems/and-a-tr…

Stacking massive styrofoam towers

Very grateful to have a poem on BBC Radio 3 this morning – thinking about Chopin's 'raindrop' prelude and me & my brother playing it as teenagers (pretty badly but with our v best intensity). You can hear me read it at 1:21:59 here: bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/m0…

Excited to be judging this excellent prize this year!🐛✨

It's #WorldPoetryDay and the countdown to the Caterpillar Poetry Prize deadline continues – 10 days left to enter! Here are some wise words from this year's judge, Kate Wakeling. We want to hear from you, even if this will be your first poem ever... ✍️ bit.ly/tcpp25

Here’s a new poem - the first of a set of seven exploring the ‘capital vices’ (among other things) – in the terrific new issue of Magma Poetry. Warmest thanks to editors Aoife Lyall and Dr Victoria Kennefick (She/Her)🍉 for taking it in all its grottiness 🩷

Last weekend to enter the Caterpillar Prize! Deadline 31st March - for a poem written by an adult for children. Send me your poems! 🚀 The Caterpillar 🐛

❛ Don’t forget the old adage that says the last poem you chuck in at the end of your submission is always the one that mystically rises to the surface... - Kate Wakeling, 2025 judge Final chance! ⏰ Closing midnight (your time) 31 March. Go, go, go!💫 bit.ly/tcpp25

Absolutely delighted to discover this! Poem of the week: Digging the Well by Erica McAlpine theguardian.com/books/2025/mar…

Sour Cherry by Natalia Theodoridou publishes tomorrow! 🍒 Thank you to early readers like Vajra Chandrasekera for their encouragement. ‘A song you think you’ve heard before, but never in this voice’

It's publication day for Sour Cherry! 🍒 This book wouldn't exist without Danya Kukafka, Agent Armstrong, Areen Ali, Masie Cochran, and the entire Tin House & Wildfire Books teams. Thank you all so much! Find it in the US: tinhouse.com/book/sour-cher… & the UK: headline.co.uk/titles/natalia…

She's *ALIVE* 🔥🔥🔥

Issue Six of And Other Poems is out now. Read it here: andotherpoems.com/issue-six/ (Photo credit to kat_katerina on Unsplash)

Our Swiss poetry @prohelvetia celebration takes place National Poetry Library on Weds July 2nd at 8pm with Kate Wakeling James Knight HAN SMITH Jessica Zuan, Nathalie Schmid, Christian de Simoni europeanpoetryfestival.com/swiss25