Work - Sublime Lungs

Sublime Lungs 

My next collection from Two Rivers Press will be published in April 2026. 

I am presently organising my reading tour. Please get in touch if you are able to offer me the chance to read. I'd be most grateful.

What they are saying about Sublime Lungs

If one measure of a poet's line is their breath, then you'd expect a poet with asthma
to be a little curtailed by it. Not so Kate Noakes. Sublime Lungs finds poem after poem
burgeoning out of the condition and leading her to find no trace of Keats in Rome, but
allegories in witchcraft, Kent marsh frogs or Blade Runner, and to have a double-edged
view of nature, which for her can be kill or cure. Whether in Machu Picchu or Boston
Library, referencing Charles Olson in Gloucester, or relating to lovers and children, Noakes
starts from the breath in her lungs and takes off into air. 

                                                                                            Matthew Caley

From Egyptian breath cures to Katherine Mansfield's inhaler to the thin air of the Rocky Mountains and Machu Picchu, Kate Noakes' latest collection evokes all the elements of a life lived with asthma. With each successive poem, Sublime Lungs expands the scope of how this condition affects one's experience of the world in poems by turns witty and moving. This is poetry that attunes us to the nuances of our own embodiment.

                                                                                            Carrie Etter

Launches and Readings:

April 2026

21st - Bristol Launch - Heron Books, Clifton, Bristol - 6pm

23rd April - Online Launch - details to follow on Eventbrite - 7pm

Launch in Reading  - check back for date and venue

West Wilts radio - monthly poetry show will feature me as the guest reader

May 2026

3rd - Workshop at the Poetry Pharmacy - Bishop's Castle

6th- Crafty Crows - Online

18th - London Launch - The Devereux  - 7pm with MC/reader Jill Abram, and guest readers Michelle Penn and Cath Drake

21st - Explore - York - Online

28th - Verbatim - Poetry Pharmacy - Bishop's Castle

29th - Silver Street - St. Andrew's Church, Bristol 

June 2026

4th - More Song - Bradford

14th - Buzzwords - Cheltenham

18th - Pure and Good and Right  - The Treehouse Bookshop - Kenilworth 7.30 for 8pm 

July 2026

10th - Cellar Bards - Cardigan

31st - Chemistry - Leeds

August 2026

6th- Fire River poets - Online

September 2026

3rd - Utter! - Luton

October 2026

5th - Fountain Poets - Wells