Sublime Lungs by Kate Noakes PN Review Can poetry be what survives

Can poetry be what survives translation

She is a previous winner of a Northern Writers’ Award for Short Fiction

A thought-provoking collection exploring memory

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Sublime Lungs by Kate Noakes PN Review Can poetry be what survivesPublished 7th April 2026 In Sublime Lungs Kate Noakes turns her attention to the breath. For the first time, she explores her lifelong asthma and explains the impact of this chronic and disabling condition. The breath and breathing are subjects for poems from many chronologies and geographies in this her ninth collection. If one measure of a poets line is their breath, then youd expect a poet with asthma to be a little curtailed by it. Not so Kate