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Kate Wakeling grew up in Yorkshire and Birmingham. A pamphlet of her poetry, The Rainbow Faults, is published by The Rialto and her first collection of poems for children, Moon Juice (illustrated by Elīna Brasliņa) is published by The Emma Press, won the 2017 CLiPPA Prize and was nominated for the 2018 Carnegie Medal.
Kate's poetry has appeared in magazines and anthologies including Magma, Oxford Poetry, Butcher's Dog, The Rialto, 3:AM magazine, The Guardian, The Best British Poetry 2014 (Salt) and The Forward Book of Poetry 2016 (Faber & Faber). Kate was highly commended in the 2015 Forward Poetry Prize.
Kate is writer-in-residence with Aurora Orchestra where her scripts, stories and verse for family audiences have featured at Kings Place, the Melbourne Festival, the bOing! Festival and on BBC Radio 3. She also writes (and sometimes performs) with chamber ensemble TROUPE – ‘concerts that tell stories’ – with recent shows at Wigmore Hall and the Spitalfields Music Summer Festival.
Kate studied music at Cambridge University and holds a PhD in Balinese gamelan music from the School of Oriental & African Studies. She writes for the TLS and reviews contemporary music for BBC Music Magazine.
Kate's poetry has appeared in magazines and anthologies including Magma, Oxford Poetry, Butcher's Dog, The Rialto, 3:AM magazine, The Guardian, The Best British Poetry 2014 (Salt) and The Forward Book of Poetry 2016 (Faber & Faber). Kate was highly commended in the 2015 Forward Poetry Prize.
Kate is writer-in-residence with Aurora Orchestra where her scripts, stories and verse for family audiences have featured at Kings Place, the Melbourne Festival, the bOing! Festival and on BBC Radio 3. She also writes (and sometimes performs) with chamber ensemble TROUPE – ‘concerts that tell stories’ – with recent shows at Wigmore Hall and the Spitalfields Music Summer Festival.
Kate studied music at Cambridge University and holds a PhD in Balinese gamelan music from the School of Oriental & African Studies. She writes for the TLS and reviews contemporary music for BBC Music Magazine.