Kate Wakeling

A new poem in the winter issue of The Poetry Review @PoetrySociety 🏛️🐍💜

@Janenewberry55 @OtterBarryBooks Oh lovely! x

A poetry parcel all wrapped in Chrimbo paper - so exciting!! For littles and middles and double figure big sisters. Thanks ⁦⁦@WakelingKate⁩ and ⁦@OtterBarryBooks⁩ #childrenspoetry

@Summercroft1 @Poetry_Together I had the best day! Thanks for having me ✨

Just the most incredible start to our Arts Week - a visit from the amazing @WakelingKate. The children loved seeing Kate perform and our day of poetry workshops culminated in a joyful grandparent sharing afternoon as part of the @Poetry_Together project.

@OLACoventry It was such a pleasure to visit the class - thanks for having me! ✨

Our Year 5 Class were very excited to have a visit from the poet Kate Wakeling this week. @WakelingKate

@year_family This is so brilliant to see! Thanks for sharing 🫛 ✨

This week, Year 4 have been completing activities based on @WakelingKate ’s wonderful poem, ‘Paean (or Eleven Uses for a Garden Pea)’🫛📝 This isn’t a 🍊🧤✍🏽🍃, it’s a… 🤔💭 #EnglishHFB10 #NationalPoetryDay #NationalPoetryWeek

@StBPrimWorcs @PoetryDayUK @voice21oracy @clpe1 I had a wonderful day with you!

What an excellent day with the brilliant @WakelingKate launching our @PoetryDayUK celebrations. Our children are inspired ready for our Poetry Slam on Thursday @voice21oracy @clpe1

Excited that we kick off our @PoetryDayUK celebrations in school tomorrow with the brilliant @WakelingKate @clpe1 @charliehacking Let the Poetry Slam preparations begin.

@Rachel__Curzon @Poetry_London @VKennefick I was so happy to see this news! Huge congratulations to you!

In a state of grateful overwhelm about this, to be honest. Just the biggest thanks to @Poetry_London and to @VKennefick. It means such a lot to be read by people I admire so hugely.

@BarbaraBleiman Thanks so much!

A lovely blog on children's poetry book illustration by @WakelingKate with fabulous illustrations from her books. What pictures bring to text (and vice versa), & the process of collaboration, is so interesting, as I've been finding myself. childrenspoetrysummit.com/2025/08/28/kat…

@PieCorbett @MichaelRosenYes Really looking forward to this, Pie!

First review and it’s a corker - ‘simply a brilliant collection’. I’ll take that!!!

We were thrilled to be at the Treasury yesterday as the Chancellor @RachelReevesMP committed to ensuring every primary school will have a library by the end of this Parliament.

@gates_owls Ahh this is really brilliant! 🌀⭐️

A huge thanks to all our adults for all their support today during our #TheGatesEnglish poetry recital! We loved the work by @WakelingKate as we ‘boogied’ to ‘The Washing Machine Jive!’ #TheGatesPoetry

@Rachel__Curzon @thewordupnorth Excellent news!

Beyond chuffed to be amongst this fine crowd. With huge thanks to @thewordupnorth. Can't wait to get going!

A brilliant Swiss poetry @prohelvetia celebration last night @natpoetrylib! Thanks to @WakelingKate @badbadpoet @Han_Smiff Jessica Zuan, Nathalie Schmid, Christian de Simoni. All performances up here europeanpoetryfestival.com/swiss25

@RumbleCoral @sparkbookaward Wonderful news! So happy to see this! x

I’m speechless, so I’ll have to type this. Thank you teachers for shortlisting it, thank you children for voting for it, and thank you Team Spark for a wonderful ceremony. You’ll all need to go and have a lie down now! @sparkbookaward

@MrsBaker6 @RachelKnoxBooks Thanks so much, both! I really hope you enjoy it @RachelKnoxBooks 🌱 🦕 ⭐️

@RachelKnoxBooks @WakelingKate Oh yay! 😍

Your recommendation has arrived @MrsBaker6 Looking forward to sharing this with some children tomorrow @WakelingKate #poetry

@RebeccaLeek_ @TheEmmaPress Ahh thank you for sharing this! ✨

Monday funday 😬 ? How about some specks of dreams, dust made magic by the light of day. Thanks to @WakelingKate for this one. It's in Moon Juice, published by @TheEmmaPress . ✨ #poemaday #pauseforpoetry 🧦☀️

@RebeccaLeek_ Lovely! Thank you!

Well this is very exciting. I'm reading the winning poem tomorrow on the radio AND I'm weaving in, with my producer's crochet hook, one from @WakelingKate as well.

@RebeccaLeek_ @clpe1 @OtterBarryBooks @Oli_Sykes89 @brianbilston @WalkerBooksUK @MacmillanKidsUK @BarbaraBleiman @MichaelRosenYes So sorry to hear this but looking forward to seeing you!

By hook or by crook I WILL make it to this today. Painkillers and standing at the back should get me through. See you there? #poemaday #pauseforpoetry