Sublime Lungs by Kate Noakes PN Review Everything

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

Winner of the T S Eliot Prize 2020

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I'm here in the house where every room has a name

Sublime Lungs by Kate Noakes PN Review EverythingPublished 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