Kate Noakes
Kate Noakes lives in Caversham, Berks. She was born in Guildford of Welsh parentage. She has degrees in Geography, and English Literature from Reading University and is presently studying for an MPhil in Creative Writing at the University of Glamorgan. She has lived in California and South Australia.
Her work has appeared in a number of small press magazines in the UK, USA, Canada and Europe including Mslexia, Cadenza, Iota, Other Poetry, Tears in the Fence, Citizen 32 andThe Wolf. Her work has been anthologised by Cinnamon Press and Leaf Books. She was a prize-winner in the 2006 Poetry London competition and the 2007 Iota competition. She won the Cheshire Poetry Competition in 2007.
She has been invited to perform at the Poetry Society, The Big Chill, Glastonbury Festival, Nottingham Poetry Festival, Windsor Arts Centre and Hay Festival. She ran the poetry writing workshop at the 2007 Women in Tune Festival.
Her first collection Ocean to Interior was published in 2007 by Mighty Erudite Press (www.mighty-erudite.co.uk). She can be contacted via her website www.boomslangpoetry.co.uk
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Coffee and Chocolate
(Poems and Stories)
A Short Story & Poetry Anthology
Price £6.99 (p&p £1 per book)
Format: Demi. 108 pages
ISBN: 978-1-905599-33-2
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‘I line them up in a neat symmetrical row, edges equidistant from the boundary of the coffee table before me: a work of modern art. Three times two hundred grams; three times a thousand calories. It’s day one of my week-long crash course.
Body Beautiful guarantees success…’
Extract from ‘The Conspiracy of Thinness’
Coffee and chocolate are goodly things, in turn stimulating and soporific and generally remarkably alluring in cakes. This anthology contains a mix of 31 winning poems and short-short stories from Leaf Books’ Coffee and Chocolate themed competitions. We hope you find them delectable and invigorating and seething with endorphins.
Razzamatazz & Other Poems
Poetry Anthology
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Format: A5 44 Pages
ISBN: 1905599-27-7
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The Leaf Books Short Poetry Competition 2006 invited entrants to submit poems up to sixteen lines in length on any topic imaginable. 525 poems were received on subjects as diverse as love, jazz, the internal monologue of a captive orang-utan and, in the first-prize winning ‘Tundra’, the plight of an obscurely-realised and unnamed refugee.
The competition was judged by prize-winning poet Sheenagh Pugh. This eminently readable anthology houses thirty-seven selected entries by both previously published and first-time poets.
Ukraine and Other Poems
Poetry Anthology
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Format: Demy
90 Pages
ISBN: 9781905599-38-7
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Ukraine and Other Poems -
there is an old soviet train
running through communities
of communist orchards
and the family planters
remain towns away
bussing each day
to plough and tow
the potato
the seed….
Extract from winning entry ‘Ukraine’ by Julie Bolitho-Lee
Ukraine and Other Poems contains the winning entries from the Leaf Books Spring 2007 Poetry Competition. No fewer that twenty-nine triumphant verses about elderly fruit pickers and disappointing aunts, stolen daffodils and red dresses and every other topic in between nestle within these covers.
Standing on the Cast Iron Shore
and Other Poems
ISBN 978-1-905599-45-5
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looking for a man to make you whole.
Here are a hundred of them, perfectly formed.
These men will never let you down,
or give you a load of grief.
They’ll stay around.
Time and tide wait for no man.
So take one, quick.
They’ll love you like no other can.
Extract from winning entry ‘Standing on the Cast-Iron
Shore’ by Kathy Miles.
Standing on the Cast-Iron Shore and Other Poems
contains the winning entries from the Leaf Books Poetry
Competition 2008: they comprise thirty-three of the
most tantalising verses about iron men, deceptive
uncles, egregious myna birds and macadamia nut
steamers that you could ever hope to encounter.
The Leaf Books team was aided in the judging of this
competition by the poet Sheenagh Pugh.