Clare Shaw
@clareshawpoet.bsky.social
Poet. I love moss, mudlarking and broken things. Proud to be Northern, non-binary and neurodivergent.
MINCE PIES IN MERRIE ENGLAND
November 5, 2025 at 2:30 PM
MINCE PIES IN MERRIE ENGLAND
Recent gifts from the God of Mudlarking.
November 5, 2025 at 2:29 PM
Recent gifts from the God of Mudlarking.
Bog lovers! PEAT IS ..... please complete this phrase in whatever way you wish - be it scientific fact, hope or fear, place name, memory, sensory observation, species of creature or fauna, wild image or metaphor ..... and type it into the comments!
THANK YOU!
THANK YOU!
November 4, 2025 at 7:22 PM
Bog lovers! PEAT IS ..... please complete this phrase in whatever way you wish - be it scientific fact, hope or fear, place name, memory, sensory observation, species of creature or fauna, wild image or metaphor ..... and type it into the comments!
THANK YOU!
THANK YOU!
Peter Riley is a quietly defining force in British poetry. It amazes me that he lives among us in Hebden Bridge. Peter now lives with Parkinson's and I feel so privileged he has asked me to read his work alongside him on November 4th at the Dusty Miller in Mytholmroyd. It’ll be a wonderful night.
October 24, 2025 at 10:17 AM
Peter Riley is a quietly defining force in British poetry. It amazes me that he lives among us in Hebden Bridge. Peter now lives with Parkinson's and I feel so privileged he has asked me to read his work alongside him on November 4th at the Dusty Miller in Mytholmroyd. It’ll be a wonderful night.
This is Kevin.
Kevin is one of a small herd of wild Welsh mountain ponies looked after by my partner.
Kevin says Hi.
Kevin is one of a small herd of wild Welsh mountain ponies looked after by my partner.
Kevin says Hi.
October 18, 2025 at 6:41 PM
This is Kevin.
Kevin is one of a small herd of wild Welsh mountain ponies looked after by my partner.
Kevin says Hi.
Kevin is one of a small herd of wild Welsh mountain ponies looked after by my partner.
Kevin says Hi.
Beautiful, broken, lost and unwanted.
July 6, 2025 at 11:33 AM
Beautiful, broken, lost and unwanted.
Here’s what we’re doing and why we’re doing it.
June 23, 2025 at 4:08 PM
Here’s what we’re doing and why we’re doing it.
Here's a nice thing! I created this set of bog-themed resources and workshop plans for the Poetry Society. They are suitable for kids and adults, and you can download them for free.
resources.poetrysociety.org.uk/lesson/bogs-...
resources.poetrysociety.org.uk/lesson/bogs-...
June 22, 2025 at 7:07 AM
Here's a nice thing! I created this set of bog-themed resources and workshop plans for the Poetry Society. They are suitable for kids and adults, and you can download them for free.
resources.poetrysociety.org.uk/lesson/bogs-...
resources.poetrysociety.org.uk/lesson/bogs-...
We're dancing to celebrate the genius of Kate Bush and Emily Brontë, to raise money for Women's Aid, and to protect our moors, their curlews and bogs and cultural legacy from the proposal to build England's biggest onshore windfarm on their protected peat.
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June 14, 2025 at 7:35 PM
We're dancing to celebrate the genius of Kate Bush and Emily Brontë, to raise money for Women's Aid, and to protect our moors, their curlews and bogs and cultural legacy from the proposal to build England's biggest onshore windfarm on their protected peat.
www.facebook.com/share/p/1AUz...
www.facebook.com/share/p/1AUz...
In 2023, there were over a million recorded incidents of violence against women in England and Wales alone.
I can't wait to see these figures plummet as transwomen are denied entry into women’s toilets, hospital wards and sports. Thank God JK Rowling and her cronies defended women so effectively.
I can't wait to see these figures plummet as transwomen are denied entry into women’s toilets, hospital wards and sports. Thank God JK Rowling and her cronies defended women so effectively.
June 12, 2025 at 6:19 PM
In 2023, there were over a million recorded incidents of violence against women in England and Wales alone.
I can't wait to see these figures plummet as transwomen are denied entry into women’s toilets, hospital wards and sports. Thank God JK Rowling and her cronies defended women so effectively.
I can't wait to see these figures plummet as transwomen are denied entry into women’s toilets, hospital wards and sports. Thank God JK Rowling and her cronies defended women so effectively.
Little universes I have found and taken home
June 8, 2025 at 12:00 PM
Little universes I have found and taken home
Today is International Peatland Day. And tomorrow’s Wild Writing session is all about peat and its binary-busting wonders.
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June 2, 2025 at 9:16 PM
Today is International Peatland Day. And tomorrow’s Wild Writing session is all about peat and its binary-busting wonders.
www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/30-days-wi...
www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/30-days-wi...
Brambles and bindweed, dandelions and dogrose - what we'll be writing about tomorrow and you're welcome to join us
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www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/30-days-wi...
June 1, 2025 at 7:35 PM
Brambles and bindweed, dandelions and dogrose - what we'll be writing about tomorrow and you're welcome to join us
www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/30-days-wi...
www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/30-days-wi...
Tonight's "Nothing More Beautiful" online poetry workshop was a thing of wonder. Love and tears and fruit and loads of money raised for the Good Law Project's fight for trans rights.
May 22, 2025 at 9:12 PM
Tonight's "Nothing More Beautiful" online poetry workshop was a thing of wonder. Love and tears and fruit and loads of money raised for the Good Law Project's fight for trans rights.
Small broken things.
May 19, 2025 at 9:38 PM
Small broken things.
Mudlarked cup handles.
May 11, 2025 at 8:49 PM
Mudlarked cup handles.
Beautiful broken things.
Found whilst watering the saplings in our restored woods.
Little signs of beauty and resilience in an injured landscape.
Found whilst watering the saplings in our restored woods.
Little signs of beauty and resilience in an injured landscape.
May 9, 2025 at 9:17 AM
Beautiful broken things.
Found whilst watering the saplings in our restored woods.
Little signs of beauty and resilience in an injured landscape.
Found whilst watering the saplings in our restored woods.
Little signs of beauty and resilience in an injured landscape.
Queer joy, queer hope, poetry. open.substack.com/pub/kimmoore...
April 27, 2025 at 4:51 PM
Queer joy, queer hope, poetry. open.substack.com/pub/kimmoore...
New finds. I can actually hear them arguing about who stands where.
April 8, 2025 at 6:45 PM
New finds. I can actually hear them arguing about who stands where.
In 2022, we shared our home with a young Ukrainian woman who was given 10 minutes to leave her home.
We stand with Ukraine; we stand for freedom.
We stand with Ukraine; we stand for freedom.
March 1, 2025 at 11:10 PM
In 2022, we shared our home with a young Ukrainian woman who was given 10 minutes to leave her home.
We stand with Ukraine; we stand for freedom.
We stand with Ukraine; we stand for freedom.
This is a tardigrade, otherwise known as a water bear, or a moss pig, and it’s one of the bog bodies we’ll be writing about this Friday 21st from 7-9pm in Bog Bodies: A Creative Encounter. All proceeds towards our Book of Bogs Give Peat a Chance Crowdfunder
www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/bog-bodies...?
www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/bog-bodies...?
February 18, 2025 at 9:36 AM
This is a tardigrade, otherwise known as a water bear, or a moss pig, and it’s one of the bog bodies we’ll be writing about this Friday 21st from 7-9pm in Bog Bodies: A Creative Encounter. All proceeds towards our Book of Bogs Give Peat a Chance Crowdfunder
www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/bog-bodies...?
www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/bog-bodies...?
Part of my “Project Less Depressed February” is to work in the Lakes whenever I can.
February 15, 2025 at 7:21 PM
Part of my “Project Less Depressed February” is to work in the Lakes whenever I can.
Wishing you a happy mid February, with the help of the five-year-olds of Keswick.
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February 14, 2025 at 11:52 PM
Wishing you a happy mid February, with the help of the five-year-olds of Keswick.
kimmoore30.substack.com/p/love-and-o...
kimmoore30.substack.com/p/love-and-o...