Coming Soon! The Loudest Whispers poetry book is due out on 28 May 2026, via the Book Guild.
To pre-order now click here, or visit your nearest bookstore to request a copy!
The Loudest Whispers is the creative collaboration between writer Rhuar Dean and illustrator Charlotte Workman. We hope to empower and embolden small voices through poems and illustrations that are as fragile, bold and irreverent as the children we hope will read them and the adults they will become.
Aimed at children between the ages of five and twelve and the adults that read with them, it tries to whisper loudly that things can be funny and difficult and silly and sad, sometimes all at the same time. The current collection is composed of fifty-six colour pages of illustrated poems. The illustrations are hand drawn by Charlotte Workman using pen and ink, watercolour and collage.
Rhuar & Char
Rhuar is a poet and writer currently living and working in the Middle East. He hopes he will never grow up. His poems and fiction have appeared in a number of magazines, including Litro, the Interpreter’s House, Crannog, Open Pen and the Londonist. His stories have also been performed by the Liars’ League in London, Leicester and New York.
Charlotte is an illustrator based in Lewes, UK. Also an actress and musician, both of which feed into her art work, she creates and designs family trees, personalised maps and bespoke illustrated mementoes alongside a passion for her own anthropomorphic drawing and sketching. She especially enjoys creating art works that viewers can return to, interact with and keep finding something new in. For this particular work, she has created a cast of characters, many of whom appear across several of the poems and are based on her own observations of life's more curious characters as well as working with Rhuar to interpret his own poetic creations.
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Release date 28th May 2026
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Release date 28th May 2026
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“I think adults lie
They don’t always tell the truth
I know that may sound silly
But I also have the proof
You see, I’ve approached it like a scientist
(I don’t mean to sound aloof)
I have tested my hypothesis
Now you can peer review…”
— Lies & Other Lies