Cloud Soup: Poems

By Kate Wakeling and Elīna Brasliņa

Bake a weird cake, pay a visit to the Deep, and get some inspiration for your very own word hoard! Anything is possible in the world of Cloud Soup, Kate Wakeling's breathlessly imaginative collection of poems for children.
Quieter poems sit alongside riotously funny ones in this sequel to Moon Juice. Readers are encouraged to look more closely at clouds, water, dust and trees, and to reflect on the knottier areas of life.

• Language: English
• Publisher: The Emma Press
• Release date: Jul 1, 2021
• ISBN: 9781912915750

Kate Wakeling

Kate Wakeling is a poet and musicologist. Her debut poetry collection for children, Moon Juice, won the CLiPPA in 2017 and was nominated for the Carnegie Medal. Her second collection, Cloud Soup, was shortlisted for the CLiPPA in 2022 and named a book of the month in the Guardian and the Scotsman. A pamphlet of Kate’s poetry for adults, The Rainbow Faults, is published by The Rialto. Kate studied music at Cambridge University and holds a PhD in Balinese gamelan music from SOAS.

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‘From the CLiPPA-winning Kate Wakeling comes a second volume of poetry, Cloud Soup, illustrated by Elīna Brasliņa with squiggly, cheerful charm. Both limpidly welcoming and profoundly meaningful, some of these poems, on subjects from weird cakes to good ideas, bodies, dust and Antarctica, will surely stay with their enthralled readers for ever.’ The Guardian

‘She is eloquent and thoughtful and, without striving for effect or reaching for the rhetorical flourish, moves effortlessly from the humdrum to the magical, the everyday to the universal… This is the poet not as show-off entertainer or all-wise seer but as an exemplar, an enviably eloquent and subtle facilitator, who seems to be saying: this is my story, what is yours?’ Books for Keeps

‘A delightful collection of poetry… Uplifting and thought-provoking.’ The Scotsman

‘This is a poet at the height of her powers whose love of language and rhythms combine to dazzling effect… This collection has everything – poems to get discussion flowing, poems just to love for the sound of the words, poems to inspire writing. It is the best kind of book.’ Just Imagine

OTHER TITLES AVAILABLE FROM THE EMMA PRESS

POETRY COLLECTIONS FOR CHILDREN

Moon Juice, by Kate Wakeling

Wain, by Rachel Plummer

Super Guppy, by Edward van de Vendel,

translated from Dutch by David Colmer

Poems the Wind Blew In, by Karmelo C Iribarren,

translated from Spanish by Lawrence Schimel

My Sneezes Are Perfect, by Rakhshan Rizwan

THEMED POETRY ANTHOLOGIES FOR CHILDREN

Falling Out of the Sky: Poems about Myths and Monsters

Watcher of the Skies: Poems about Space and Aliens

The Head that Wears a Crown: Poems about Kings and Queens

Dragons of the Prime: Poems about Dinosaurs

The Bee Is Not Afraid of Me: A Book of Insect Poems

PICTURE BOOKS FOR CHILDREN

Queen of Seagulls, by Rūta Briede,

translated from Latvian by Elīna Brasliņa

The Dog Who Found Sorrow, by Rūta Briede,

translated from Latvian by Elīna Brasliņa

Bicki-Books 1-12, by various

When It Rains, by Rassi