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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 commended in the 2015 Forward Poetry Prize and the 2017 Magma Poetry Competition.
Kate is writer-in-residence with Aurora Orchestra where her scripts and stories have featured at Kings Place, Southbank Centre, 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, Spitalfields Music Festival and Brazil's Festival Sesc de Música de Câmara. Collaborating with composers is a growing part of Kate's work. Her poetry has been set by composer Cheryl Frances-Hoad in a song cycle, The Thought Machine (Champs Hill Records) and Kate is currently working on a collaboration with composer Cecilia McDowall for Snape Maltings' celebrated 'Friday Afternoons' programme.
Kate loves performing her poetry, particularly for family audiences, and recent and forthcoming readings include appearances at the Cheltenham Literature Festival, the Bridport Literary Festival, the Stratford-Upon-Avon Poetry Festival and the Imagine Children’s Festival at Southbank Centre.
Kate studied music at Cambridge University and holds a PhD in Balinese gamelan music from the School of Oriental & African Studies. She writes regularly for the Times Literary Supplement 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 commended in the 2015 Forward Poetry Prize and the 2017 Magma Poetry Competition.
Kate is writer-in-residence with Aurora Orchestra where her scripts and stories have featured at Kings Place, Southbank Centre, 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, Spitalfields Music Festival and Brazil's Festival Sesc de Música de Câmara. Collaborating with composers is a growing part of Kate's work. Her poetry has been set by composer Cheryl Frances-Hoad in a song cycle, The Thought Machine (Champs Hill Records) and Kate is currently working on a collaboration with composer Cecilia McDowall for Snape Maltings' celebrated 'Friday Afternoons' programme.
Kate loves performing her poetry, particularly for family audiences, and recent and forthcoming readings include appearances at the Cheltenham Literature Festival, the Bridport Literary Festival, the Stratford-Upon-Avon Poetry Festival and the Imagine Children’s Festival at Southbank Centre.
Kate studied music at Cambridge University and holds a PhD in Balinese gamelan music from the School of Oriental & African Studies. She writes regularly for the Times Literary Supplement and reviews contemporary music for BBC Music Magazine.