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Poet. I love moss, mudlarking and broken things. Proud to be Northern, non-binary and neurodivergent.
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Dear #BookSky can you help us find our lost audience? We left 140,00 people behind on X and we want to reconnect!

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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...?

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Part of my “Project Less Depressed February” is to work in the Lakes whenever I can.

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Wishing you a happy mid February, with the help of the five-year-olds of Keswick. kimmoore30.substack.com/p/love-and-o...

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I’ve been much too busy for too long. So today I’ve come away by myself for three nights of writing, mossbothering and befriending other people’s dogs.

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‘Reading was my escape and my comfort, my consolation, my stimulant of choice: reading for the pure pleasure of it, for the beautiful stillness that surrounds you when you hear an author’s words reverberating in your head.’ Paul Auster was born on this day in 1947.

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Hope Rachel Reeves doesn't think wind farms on protected peatland are a good economic growth opportunity for the North cos they're not. saverestorewalshawmoor.wordpress.com/2024/12/05/t...

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Check it out. Please share:)

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BOG BODIES are not always dead people. Sometimes they are amazing tiny living bodies like tardigrades. Sometimes they are imaginary. Come and explore the possibilities on 21st February 7-9pm, with all proceeds to the Give Peat a Chance crowdfunder. www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/1229270634...

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Being a freelance poet with ADHD and executive dysfunction can be exhausting, embarrassing and occasionally hilarious. Here's my latest substack, featuring Olivia Tuck explaining why Abba is a crucial part of her role as my PA.

submitted 28 days ago • 1 comment

Last week’s treasure, and a new resident for The Cabinet of Broken Things.

submitted 30 days ago • 2 comments

At midnight, it reached -10, so I went for a walk on the moor. The deep snow was frozen hard, and very bright and silent, the road to Haworth was closed, and the animal tracks were very clear.

submitted 47 days ago • 2 comments

I find broken things; these are some of the broken things I found recently. My favourite is the farmer fragment, which I found on the verge in our village when I was cleaning up litter - the dry stone walls sometimes bleed fragments from their core.

submitted 48 days ago • 2 comments

My village. I have a hot water bottle on my feet, another on my lap, I’m under a heated blanket and I’m wearing a down jacket. Flipping freezing but it’s worth it.

submitted 48 days ago • 2 comments

kimmoore30.substack.com/p/their-gift...

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This is a remarkable website, launching Jan 1 , that will look at a different plant that can be found in London each day. A lifetime’s work by a distinguished botanist and true friend Tom Maxwell. Start subscribing on Jan1…. www.londonnaturedaybyday.com

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Family estrangement is not uncommon, and at Christmas it’s especially painful. Wishing you Wild Geese and your place in the family of things – or wherever you find community.

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“The light shines in the darkness, and the darkness has not overcome it”. Wishing everyone a Happy Christmas.

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I’m looking for - a tugging sad like anchor snagged on rocks in a surging sea of anxiety.

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A Syrian friend of mine wants to talk with/ write for the UK media about living under Assad and how it feels to find out - with the opening of the prisons - that her family and friends have not survived. Any advice or help - especially if you have media contacts - would be extremely welcome.

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CW: caring medical encounter described below .. I just had a truly beautiful conversation with the practice nurse who was taking my blood about all the scarring on my arms from years of self-injury. "It shows how brave you are", she said, and I thanked her, and she said "You have a lovely smile".

submitted 75 days ago • 1 comment

How flipping exciting is this? Very flipping exciting.

submitted 75 days ago • 0 comments

Hooray! My episode with @scrappapertiger.bsky.social on Nic King & @katefoxwriter75.bsky.social's podcast, Neurotypicals Don't Juggle Chainsaws, is out today! We talked about #monotropism, privilege, #WeirdPride and more... open.spotify.com/episode/3Ef5...

submitted 75 days ago • 4 comments

The greatest, deepest love I have ever known entered my life seventeen years ago today. Happy birthday, love.

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Not Everything is Lost - my latest substack and that group poem you helped with last weekend. kimmoore30.substack.com/p/not-everyt...

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here's my latest substack, and an invitation to take part in writing a group poem

submitted 79 days ago • 0 comments

Here's my latest substack - about bogs, and poems, and bogs. kimmoore30.substack.com/p/the-magic-...

submitted 80 days ago • 1 comment

On my way to Christie's to read poetry at Maggie's - a space for people with cancer and for those who love them. And I'm remembering people I've lost this year, including Kathryn. Lord, do I miss her. Welcome to Maggie's. The kettle's already on. www.maggies.org/our-centres/...

submitted 82 days ago • 3 comments

apart from the actual writing, what proportion of your poetry career is unpaid? What do you do - and why do you do it?

submitted 83 days ago • 0 comments

I'm writing an article about making a living as a writer. Less than 1% of my income comes from royalties … the largest chunk comes from teaching and mentoring; the rest from performing and commissions … I’d love to know what everyone else does!

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This is Borth Bog. It’s also the place where my partner first kissed me.

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4000 year-old tree on Borth beach, preserved by ancient peat, covered by the tides, exposed by storms. I am undone.

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We’re absolutely delighted that Patti Smith has sent us poem for inclusion in Walshaw Moor: A Book of Bogs. She’ll be published alongside other extraordinary writers like Amy Liptrot, Pascale Petite and Robert McFarlane, writing in defence of bogs. You can help! www.crowdfunder.co.uk/p/give-peat-...

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