Moon Juice is a collection of poems for children published by the Emma Press, featuring illustrations by Elīna Brasliņa.
'Exuding a belief that young readers are curious about the world they live in, Kate Wakeling’s poems also give her audience a sense of power, of being able to navigate the world they (we) live in. Whether that’s through articulating the frustration and anger that can come on dark days, or through exploring the super powers children can have (even if the adults don’t know it), this wonderful collection is full of encouragement and interest.' Zoe Toft, Playing By The Book
'I was interested to read Moon Juice, the first individual collection for children from the excellent and innovative Emma Press who have produced several exciting themed anthologies. I like their attention to detail, little touches like a matching bookmark and the target age range on the cover. Children would love Elina Braslina's drawings and I liked the Write Your Own Poem page at the end. I very much liked Wakeling's inventiveness and imagination. Children of 7 and up would relish the surreal 'Hamster Man' or 'The Demon Mouth' and the language and content of the poems is slap bang up to date and all the better for it. In 'Little-Known Facts', for example, we learn that
When a child sneezes, the nearest adult briefly loses all reception on their mobile phone.
Left unwashed, children's feet smell of perfectly cooked spaghetti.
The poems are varied in shape and form, there is bold use of white space and a sense of enjoyment in the language. I think 7 year olds would love this one and I expect it to walk out of my study very soon.' Carole Bromley, The North
'Exuding a belief that young readers are curious about the world they live in, Kate Wakeling’s poems also give her audience a sense of power, of being able to navigate the world they (we) live in. Whether that’s through articulating the frustration and anger that can come on dark days, or through exploring the super powers children can have (even if the adults don’t know it), this wonderful collection is full of encouragement and interest.' Zoe Toft, Playing By The Book
'I was interested to read Moon Juice, the first individual collection for children from the excellent and innovative Emma Press who have produced several exciting themed anthologies. I like their attention to detail, little touches like a matching bookmark and the target age range on the cover. Children would love Elina Braslina's drawings and I liked the Write Your Own Poem page at the end. I very much liked Wakeling's inventiveness and imagination. Children of 7 and up would relish the surreal 'Hamster Man' or 'The Demon Mouth' and the language and content of the poems is slap bang up to date and all the better for it. In 'Little-Known Facts', for example, we learn that
When a child sneezes, the nearest adult briefly loses all reception on their mobile phone.
Left unwashed, children's feet smell of perfectly cooked spaghetti.
The poems are varied in shape and form, there is bold use of white space and a sense of enjoyment in the language. I think 7 year olds would love this one and I expect it to walk out of my study very soon.' Carole Bromley, The North
The Rainbow Faults is No. 10 in The Rialto's Bridge Pamphlets series.
'What grabs me about this pamphlet is how precisely and how playfully Kate Wakeling places words to construct soundscapes. These in turn create a space for her gifts of intellect and observation.' Helen Evans, Sphinx Reviews
'Kate Wakeling is a poet to watch, her work an April rainbow of freshness and surprise.' Carol Rumens, The Guardian
'Perhaps Wakeling’s greatest strength in this collection is distilling the folkloric, the magical and curious into an entirely clear, modern, exciting register... Wakeling’s work is full of interest, beauty and a faint sense of unease. It is dark as unlit woodland, but her mastery of sonic patterning and tight structure means that it is also delicious, irresistibly readable.' Alice Tarbuck, Sabotage Reviews
'The poems in her debut pamphlet, The Rainbow Faults (a to-die-for title, btw) are muscular, technical and highly musical... I didn’t just enjoy these poems, I tasted, relished and devoured them... To read them is a quicksilver zip through language and Wakeling should be congratulated for putting together such an assured, bravura body of work.' Richard Skinner, The Next Review
'What grabs me about this pamphlet is how precisely and how playfully Kate Wakeling places words to construct soundscapes. These in turn create a space for her gifts of intellect and observation.' Helen Evans, Sphinx Reviews
'Kate Wakeling is a poet to watch, her work an April rainbow of freshness and surprise.' Carol Rumens, The Guardian
'Perhaps Wakeling’s greatest strength in this collection is distilling the folkloric, the magical and curious into an entirely clear, modern, exciting register... Wakeling’s work is full of interest, beauty and a faint sense of unease. It is dark as unlit woodland, but her mastery of sonic patterning and tight structure means that it is also delicious, irresistibly readable.' Alice Tarbuck, Sabotage Reviews
'The poems in her debut pamphlet, The Rainbow Faults (a to-die-for title, btw) are muscular, technical and highly musical... I didn’t just enjoy these poems, I tasted, relished and devoured them... To read them is a quicksilver zip through language and Wakeling should be congratulated for putting together such an assured, bravura body of work.' Richard Skinner, The Next Review
