Kim Moore
@kimmoorepoet.bsky.social
Poet and non-fiction writer. Latest poetry collection "All The Men I Never Married" won the 2022 Forward Prize. Senior Lecturer in Creative Writing at Manchester Metropolitan University. Substack: https://shorturl.at/Ea3sI
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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...
'Go to the poets': Harry Josephine Giles
Curated and hosted by poet Kim Moore, our online contemporary poetry reading series continues throughout 2025.
We will be listening to what poets...
www.trybooking.com
November 11, 2025 at 5:05 PM
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...
Poetry Events | Dates for your diary | Kim Moore
Forthcoming readings, workshops and residential courses that Kim Moore will be appearing at
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November 8, 2025 at 3:50 PM
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...
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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
November 6, 2025 at 3:29 PM
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...
www.trybooking.com/uk/events/la...
'Go to the poets': Harry Josephine Giles
Curated and hosted by poet Kim Moore, our online contemporary poetry reading series continues throughout 2025.
We will be listening to what poets...
www.trybooking.com
November 6, 2025 at 3:35 PM
Only two open mic slots left for this event with Harry Josephine Giles
www.trybooking.com/uk/events/la...
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.
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A working-class chance
By Kim Moore
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November 2, 2025 at 12:21 PM
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.
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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...
January Writing Hours 2026
Come and join Kim Moore and Clare Shaw in a daily Writing Hour throughout January 2026
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October 28, 2025 at 8:58 AM
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...
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October 19, 2025 at 9:12 AM
Latest substack post about our visit to the epic Marina Abramovic exhibition - an amazing experience that I have completely failed to capture in language...
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September reads featuring the brilliant Clare Pollard and Christina Thatcher over on Substack now.
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September Reads
By Kim Moore
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October 5, 2025 at 10:39 PM
September reads featuring the brilliant Clare Pollard and Christina Thatcher over on Substack now.
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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
By Kim Moore
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September 11, 2025 at 8:18 AM
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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News of some upcoming online and Bradford events! open.substack.com/pub/kimmoore...
Upcoming events
By Kim Moore
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September 6, 2025 at 8:54 PM
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!
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
Join us on 18th November, book tickets £12-£16 here geni.us/simon_A
September 6, 2025 at 5:46 PM
Looking forward to being back in Lancaster in conversation with Simon Armitage!
Help us choose our next profile pic for our substack!
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Taking it seriously at Shaw & Moore
a photo story by Clare Shaw
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September 5, 2025 at 6:22 PM
Help us choose our next profile pic for our substack!
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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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All Change at Shaw and Moore
By Kim Moore and Clare Shaw
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September 3, 2025 at 7:15 PM
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...
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One of my favourite gigs and I get to do it all over again! Send me your pamphlet-babies and your poem-monsters
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/
Judges: @kimmoorepoet.bsky.social & @hollyhopkins.bsky.social
OPEN FOR ENTRIES FROM 1 OCTOBER
Deadline 2 November 2025
Find out more: poetrybusiness.co.uk/competitions/
September 3, 2025 at 7:10 PM
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
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 👇
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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...
September 3, 2025 at 7:08 PM
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...
When they arrest poets as terrorists it’s time to start worrying. Alice Oswald arrested for
SUPPORTing
PALESTINE ACTION
SUPPORTing
PALESTINE ACTION
August 10, 2025 at 11:48 AM
Alice Oswald arrested yesterday...
July reads up on Substack! Featuring new collection by David Morley, and books by Hettie Judah and Olga Tokarczuk
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July Reading
By Kim Moore
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August 3, 2025 at 10:32 AM
July reads up on Substack! Featuring new collection by David Morley, and books by Hettie Judah and Olga Tokarczuk
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July reads up on Substack! Featuring books by David Morley, Olga Tokarczuk and Hettie Judah kimmoore30.substack.com/p/july-reading
July Reading
By Kim Moore
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August 3, 2025 at 10:30 AM
July reads up on Substack! Featuring books by David Morley, Olga Tokarczuk and Hettie Judah kimmoore30.substack.com/p/july-reading
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
By Kim Moore
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July 1, 2025 at 9:51 AM
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...
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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...
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...
June 9, 2025 at 5:36 PM
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...
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
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'Go to the poets, they will speak to thee': Erica Hesketh - Wordsworth Grasmere
Curated and hosted by poet Kim Moore, our online contemporary poetry reading series continues throughout 2025. We will be listening...
wordsworth.org.uk
June 9, 2025 at 11:27 AM
Three open mic spots left for this online event with the brilliant Erica Hesketh published by @ninearchespress.bsky.social
wordsworth.org.uk/blog/events/...
wordsworth.org.uk/blog/events/...
👇👀🎺 on @bbcradio3bot.bsky.social on Monday night!
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).
June 8, 2025 at 3:41 PM
👇👀🎺 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...
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What happens on a writing retreat (part 2)
By Kim Moore
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June 3, 2025 at 2:14 PM
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...
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/...
wordsworth.org.uk/blog/events/...
'Go to the poets, they will speak to thee': Erica Hesketh - Wordsworth Grasmere
Curated and hosted by poet Kim Moore, our online contemporary poetry reading series continues throughout 2025. We will be listening...
wordsworth.org.uk
May 29, 2025 at 8:14 AM
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/...
wordsworth.org.uk/blog/events/...