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Kim Moore @kimmoorepoet.bsky.social · 28d

Late night essay written as procrastination from what I should have been doing - ordering the online groceries...I’ve been thinking about the school holidays - the juggling! the joy! the sadness! the guilt! and leaning once again on the wisdom of Adrienne Rich
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Back to school vibes

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Kim Moore @kimmoorepoet.bsky.social · Sep 6

News of some upcoming online and Bradford events! open.substack.com/pub/kimmoore...

Upcoming events

Taking it seriously at Shaw & Moore

Kim Moore @kimmoorepoet.bsky.social · Sep 6

Looking forward to being back in Lancaster in conversation with Simon Armitage!

Litfest, Lancaster @litfest.bsky.social · Sep 6

For this Autumn's post-festival event, we've teamed up with our friends at Lancaster Arts to bring poet laureate Simon Armitage back to Lancaster for a very special event discussing Poetry and Land with @kimmoorepoet.bsky.social!

Join us on 18th November, book tickets £12-£16 here geni.us/simon_A

Top, author photo of Simon Armitage next to the book cover for New Cemetery.
At the bottom, a section of the Litfest Autumn Weekend programme cover.

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Kim Moore @kimmoorepoet.bsky.social · Sep 5

Help us choose our next profile pic for our substack!
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a photo story by Clare Shaw

All Change at Shaw and Moore

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Kim Moore @kimmoorepoet.bsky.social · Sep 3

New post over on our substack! Now is a great time to subscribe for free 😊 or if you'd like an invite to a live online event once a month, you can sign up for £4 a month
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By Kim Moore and Clare Shaw

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Kim Moore @kimmoorepoet.bsky.social · Sep 3

Thankyou Clare! Lovely to return to these poems again😍 I miss you all in Cumbria too x

Kim Moore @kimmoorepoet.bsky.social · Sep 3

Ah thanks Catherine! So lovely to see my first pamphlet still out and wild in the world 😍

Kim Moore @kimmoorepoet.bsky.social · Sep 3

One of my favourite gigs and I get to do it all over again! Send me your pamphlet-babies and your poem-monsters

The Poetry Business @poetrybusiness.bsky.social · Aug 21

Get ready! The 2026 International Book & Pamphlet Competition and the 2026 New Poets Prize are opening for entries soon. 🏆

Judges: @kimmoorepoet.bsky.social & @hollyhopkins.bsky.social

OPEN FOR ENTRIES FROM 1 OCTOBER
Deadline 2 November 2025

Find out more: poetrybusiness.co.uk/competitions/

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Kim Moore @kimmoorepoet.bsky.social · Sep 3

Ah thankyou so much!

Kim Moore @kimmoorepoet.bsky.social · Sep 3

LOVE hearing about Jan Writing Hours poems that make it into the world, fully formed and glorious 🥰 congratulations @eleanorholmes.bsky.social

Eleanor Holmes | Eliot North @eleanorholmes.bsky.social · Aug 18

So excited to see my poem ‘Burying with ham’ in issue16 of The Alchemy Spoon ‘Food’ edition.

Thx to @clareshawpoet.bsky.social @kimmoorepoet.bsky.social for Jan Writing Hour prompt on death rituals,
where this poem was born.

Launch reading 🚀 tickets below 👇
www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/the-launch...

Cover of Issue 16 ‘Food’ of The Alchemy Spoon

Burying with ham

Great Aunt Florence
was buried with ham,
my brother asked at the last
to shoulder her coffin,
the unbearable weight of it despite her tiny frame
breaking him, the lowering
on ropes undoing his
upper lip. Six strong men
slip sliding in the mud struggled to ease her
at a dignified pace,
the straps scoring skin
as rain fell in Llandenny.
The earth swallowed
her life force that fed us
with love, drizzled in lemon cake, veg, roast meat raised
on the farm, goodness in life preserved for us now with
jars of pickle and jugs of
perry. How the village hall tables groaned with ham
cut thick and bread fresh
from the oven to toast Flo
a whip of a woman, rosy
russet cheeks and strength
of character shining through on the smiling faces, steam from the mugs of twice brewed tea on windows, glasses, through the misting of tears
a choir of voices eased
her passing, hall windows open wide to set her free.

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Kim Moore @kimmoorepoet.bsky.social · Aug 10

Alice Oswald arrested yesterday...

John Glenday @johnglenday.bsky.social · Aug 10

When they arrest poets as terrorists it’s time to start worrying. Alice Oswald arrested for
SUPPORTing
PALESTINE ACTION

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Kim Moore @kimmoorepoet.bsky.social · Aug 3

July reads up on Substack! Featuring new collection by David Morley, and books by Hettie Judah and Olga Tokarczuk
kimmoore30.substack.com/p/july-reading

July Reading

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Kim Moore @kimmoorepoet.bsky.social · Aug 3

July reads up on Substack! Featuring books by David Morley, Olga Tokarczuk and Hettie Judah kimmoore30.substack.com/p/july-reading

July Reading

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Kim Moore @kimmoorepoet.bsky.social · Jul 28

Thanks Sari! Lovely to see my Men there :)

Kim Moore @kimmoorepoet.bsky.social · Jul 26

Fantastic Gregory! Cant wait to read yours 😊

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Kim Moore @kimmoorepoet.bsky.social · Jul 8

First Draft to Last Draft

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Kim Moore @kimmoorepoet.bsky.social · Jul 8

Ah thankyou! Honoured to be in such company :)

Kim Moore @kimmoorepoet.bsky.social · Jul 1

What I've been reading over May/June - Anne Carson, Nick Makoha, Liz Berry, Erica Hesketh, Michael Symmons Roberts, Lucy Jones open.substack.com/pub/kimmoore...

May/June Reading

'Go to the poets, they will speak to thee': Erica Hesketh - Wordsworth Grasmere

Reposted by Kim Moore

Falling Tree Productions @fallingtreeprod.bsky.social · Jun 9

Our new series ‘Instrumental’ starts on BBC Radio 3 tonight with @kimmoorepoet.bsky.social

Pick of the day in @radiotimes.bsky.social and @theobserveruk.bsky.social

Presented and produced by doc-maker (and trumpeter) Alan Hall www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m...

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Kim Moore @kimmoorepoet.bsky.social · Jun 9

Three open mic spots left for this online event with the brilliant Erica Hesketh published by @ninearchespress.bsky.social
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Curated and hosted by poet Kim Moore, our online contemporary poetry reading series continues throughout 2025. We will be listening...

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Kim Moore @kimmoorepoet.bsky.social · Jun 8

👇👀🎺 on @bbcradio3bot.bsky.social on Monday night!

Falling Tree Productions @fallingtreeprod.bsky.social · Jun 8

New series on @bbcradio3bot.bsky.social trumpeted by @financialtimes.com & @theobserveruk.bsky.social: Instrumental - conversations with musicians. First up, @kimmoorepoet.bsky.social. To come, Timothy Rundle (oboe), Yolanda Charles (bass guitar), Gurdain Rayatt (tabla), Zoe Martlew (cello).

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Kim Moore @kimmoorepoet.bsky.social · Jun 3

@lauramckee.bsky.social here you go!

What happens on a writing retreat (part 2)

Kim Moore @kimmoorepoet.bsky.social · Jun 3

Ha I think @clareshawpoet.bsky.social is currently doing some June wild writing hours! I will try and find link :)

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Kim Moore @kimmoorepoet.bsky.social · Jun 3

New substack post - last few days of my writing retreat, a week of hell with chicken pox, a feature in the radio times - just the usual sublime to the ridiculous and back again of the writing life...
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