Work - Tattoo on Crow Street

My fifth poetry collection is from Parthian (July 2015).

'...a powerful exploration of the human psyche.' PBS Bulletin, Autumn 2015.

Launches and Readings as follows:

Paris - Shakespeare and Company - Wednesday 24 June (soundcloud) - 7pm

Cardigan - The Canoe Shed -  Saturday 8 August 7pm

London - The Troubadour - Monday 19 October 8pm

London - The Wheatsheaf - Sunday 6 December 2pm

Paris - Ivy Writers Sunday - 29 May 5.30pm

To buy it, please, go here, or order from any bookshop in the UK.



What they are saying about Tattoo on Crow Street already:

Tattoos are for the desperate – chavs, misguided youths, deluded slebs, right? But you can’t escape them and after reading Kate Noakes’s poems you may be encouraged to let your imagination fly when next in the supermarket queue, on the Tube, in a restaurant. There are stories and significances beyond the crude iconography, as her poems cunningly reveal – “a tattoo that pulses with the heartbeat.”

Tony Curtis

This is Kate Noakes' most powerful collection yet. Ravens, scorpions, serpents, swine take life on the ground of the body in intricate poems made, like the tattoos themselves, from sharp, sensuous scoring and patterning, on the skin and beneath it. 

 Jane Draycott


Reviews can be found at:

London Grip 'a focussed, sensual collection' 

Poetry Wales (forthcoming summer 2016)