Kim Moore

📢 Late addition to our programme! 📢 The wonderful Kim Moore joins us in just a couple of weeks for another inspiring Writing Poems workshop. Thurs 25 June, 11am - Zoom Sign up here: www.tickettailor.com/events/thepo... @kimmoorepoet.bsky.social @serenbooks.bsky.social

My April / May reading diary, featuring collections by Jean Sprackland, Audrey Malloy, Bruce Snider and non-fiction by Sheila Hetti open.substack.com/pub/shawandm...

It's Kim Moore's Book Launch Day!!! "The House of Broken Things" is an extraordinary book which explores parenthood with unique vision, depth and skill - every page takes your breath away. Here's my poem for Kim. Happy Book Day, @kimmoorepoet.bsky.social

Looking forward to hosting Daljit Nagra tomorrow night (24th March) at Manchester Poetry Library. Daljit will be reading alongside 7 of our current MA poetry students. www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/poetry-rea...

This Friday we're welcoming two of our Manchester Writing School alumni - novelist Kate Lord Brown and poet Tina Cole back to talk about their writing journeys and share new work! They'll be reading alongside some of our current writing school students. www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/an-evening...

Our next event over at Shaw and Moore is an Open Mic for the paid subscribers of our Substack - you can join us for a mere £4. Run away from the responsibilities of Christmas and entertain Clare and I instead with your poems! open.substack.com/pub/shawandm...

Still have four open mic slots left for this event with the brilliant Sarah Howe, one of my favourite contemporary poets! Get on it poets - details below in the link. wordsworth.org.uk/blog/events/...

The House of Broken Things is in the house..or will be soon! V excited about my third poetry collection, published May 2026 by Corsair

Join us for a double film screening at Manchester Metropolitan University to mark the start of this years 16 Days of Activism Against Gender-Based Violence. Event is free but you need to book! www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/16-days-of...

Online poetry reading tomorrow evening UK time from the Wordsworth Trust - @kimmoorepoet.bsky.social hosting Josie Giles. Next month is Sarah Howe! I keep missing these but they're such great events. Do share and come along! www.trybooking.com/uk/events/la...

Just updated my diary for the rest of the year - seems pretty quiet - full time at the uni, hosting three events, running a few online workshops #easypeasy www.kimmoorepoet.co.uk/poetry-event...

I’m judging the @poetrybusiness.bsky.social New Poets Prize: if you know a brilliant poet 24 or under, I want to read their manuscript! The International Book and Pamphlet Competition will be judged by @kimmoorepoet.bsky.social and is open to poets of all ages. Find out more: poetrybusiness.co.uk

Only two open mic slots left for this event with Harry Josephine Giles www.trybooking.com/uk/events/la...

First time I've tried to write openly about class, instead of it being read/imposed on my work afterwards. Photo of my nanna outside her house on Braunstone estate in Leicester. I spent most of my childhood here after school waiting for my parents to finish work. open.substack.com/pub/kimmoore...

January Writing Hours are up! Come and join Clare Shaw and I every day throughout January at 10am for a Writing Hour. Pas as you go and bursary tickets available www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/january-wr...

Latest substack post about our visit to the epic Marina Abramovic exhibition - an amazing experience that I have completely failed to capture in language... open.substack.com/pub/kimmoore...

September reads featuring the brilliant Clare Pollard and Christina Thatcher over on Substack now. open.substack.com/pub/kimmoore...

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 open.substack.com/pub/kimmoore...

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

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

Help us choose our next profile pic for our substack! open.substack.com/pub/kimmoore...

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 kimmoore30.substack.com/p/all-change...

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

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

Alice Oswald arrested yesterday...

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

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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...

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...

Three open mic spots left for this online event with the brilliant Erica Hesketh published by @ninearchespress.bsky.social wordsworth.org.uk/blog/events/...

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

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... open.substack.com/pub/kimmoore...

Online poetry event coming up! 25th June with Erica Hesketh, reading from her debut collection "In the Lily Room" published by @ninearchespress.bsky.social please click link below to sign up for open mic, or just to come and listen and enjoy some top-class poetry wordsworth.org.uk/blog/events/...

This week in the poetry blogs w/ @kimmoorepoet.bsky.social @pearlpoet.bsky.social @billymills.bsky.social @kent-nj.bsky.social @edmundprestwich.bsky.social @shotscarecrow.bsky.social @kathrynanna.bsky.social @robin-gow-poet.bsky.social @victoriamoul.bsky.social 1/3 www.vianegativa.us/2025/05/poet...

Substack on writing and performing from "What the Trumpet Taught Me" which I hope will be the first of a series of posts on alternative performances, hybrid writing, giving yourself permission to write what you want to, editing, drafting and expanding on ideas. open.substack.com/pub/kimmoore...

The second Alumni Showcase featuring four of our published alumni - Helen Kay, Cherry Doyle, Thirza Clout and Susie Wilson. We are doing our best to keep this accessible - it's free, and online and in-person tickets are available www.mmu.ac.uk/news-and-eve...

Thanks to @mconley.bsky.social for this perceptive close read of one of my poems #AllTheMenINeverMarried open.substack.com/pub/mickconl...

New substack about my April reading, which has made me ridiculously happy this month... kimmoore30.substack.com/p/april-read...

Looking forward to hosting this online event with two fantastic poets Rachel Davies and Hilary Robinson, reading from their joint collection "An Altogether Different Place" - two open mic slots left but plenty of audience spaces! wordsworth.org.uk/blog/events/...

Made the mistake of going to Amanda Dalton's house today with Clare Shaw to get some writing done. All that happened was shouting and dancing! Luckily I got it all on video. Click on the link to find out what I have to put up with kimmoore30.substack.com/p/shouting-a....

New post about the Manchester Writing School Summer Festival - dates 16th/17th June and 19th/20th June with bursary places available! And a writing exercise for our paid subscribers. open.substack.com/pub/kimmoore...

I've been enjoying @marjorielotfi.bsky.social 30/30 workshops.I can't join live so I usually watch them late at night and it's been wonderful - meeting poems I don't know (and some I do), being read to, and then just writing. It's not too late to join! www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/marjories-...

Open mic slots available to read alongside these two brilliant poets Rachel Davies and Hilary Robinson April 30th online wordsworth.org.uk/blog/events/...

New substack about motherhood, fitting in writing and upcoming National Poetry Writing Month open.substack.com/pub/kimmoore...

Happy new poem day to me! Thanks to @poetrylondon.bsky.social for publishing this one ❤️ feeling this today as I am missing so many "ordinary bedtimes" at the moment

Really enjoying this latest Tove Ditlevsen from @penguinbooksuk.bsky.social foreword by Olga Ravn has already made me cry this morning "I don't understand how it's possible to be a mother and a partner and a worker at the same time in this society without breaking down"

This beautiful poem by Katharine Towers in the latest @poetrylondon.bsky.social is just stunning.

William Stafford