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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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This is a wonderful book, can't wait to see it in real life!

OK, and these two by @shevchenkoknight.bsky.social Basket magazine is my new favourite basketmagazine.co.uk/issues/issue...

This poem by Clare Pollard!! basketmagazine.co.uk/issues/issue...

Latest substack post with a sneak peak of the beginning of a short story I've been working on this month...but I've also been thinking about ideas, and where they come from, particularly the ones that take three years to amount to anything! open.substack.com/pub/kimmoore...

Thankyou Jane, an absolute honour to have someone re-imagine my poem in this way ❤️

The new @dseuss.bsky.social is just wonderful. Published by @fitzcarraldoeds.bsky.social

'Leap' by Victo Ngai, contemporary New York based illustrator from Hong Kong #womensart

Poets, assemble! Running a residential in my poetry heart home Ty Newydd in June with the legend Roger Robinson. Would love to see you there! tynewydd.wales/course/build...

This poem 💔

Pencil sketch of a ring ouzel bird, 1829 by Emily Brontë (age 11), later writer of the classic novel 'Wuthering Heights'. The bird is still found on the wild Northern English moors near her home #womensart

I mean....this looks amazing!

Thanks to The New Statesman for publishing a brand new shiny poem www.newstatesman.com/culture/poet...

Logging into The Writing Hours for the last time with @clareshawpoet.bsky.social and @kimmoorepoet.bsky.social and GUYS Best year yet, so much good work, so much fun (even when in full-on panic mode) and my brain has been altered LITERALLY ON A CHEMICAL LEVEL \o/ /hopes for a 2026 Edition <3

Big thanks to @kimmoorepoet.bsky.social and @clareshawpoet.bsky.social for another great January of poetry and prompts. Big love and thanks, too, to all the marvellous poets attending. Hope to see you all next year! #poetrycommunity

I don't know if I dare ask who is the toast and who is the butter 😂 Thanks Sari!

Reading poems from my collection, 'Love the Albatross', at the @manmetuni.bsky.social Alumni Showcase at Manchester #Poetry Library. I'm the one on the screen - I was in Bristol - with @kimmoorepoet.bsky.social , Hilary Robinson and Rachel Davis getting cricks in their necks. (Very polite cricks.)

I've had a wonderful January, hearing fantastic poems, writing poems myself and joining a little community of amazing poets in #JanuaryWritingHours. @kimmoorepoet.bsky.social and @clareshawpoet.bsky.social have been incredible - coming up with such interesting angles & prompts. Having written 1/

Just logged off the 2nd last sesh of the daily January writing hours ( attended by over 250 people...) @clareshawpoet.bsky.social @kimmoorepoet.bsky.social thank you for your generosity & the mammoth amount of creative & admin work involved in rebooting & recharging so many others...

Tonight at the Alumni Reading @manmetuni.bsky.social at Manchester Poetry Library hosted by @kimmoorepoet.bsky.social 🩷 and obviously a chance to say hi to my @serenbooks.bsky.social book.

Stunning poem @poetbex.bsky.social published in the wonderful @rialtopoetry.bsky.social

Emily Skaja in BRUTE ♥️

New substack featuring the late great John Foggin and a writing exercise fresh from the January Writing Hours that Clare Shaw and I have been running every day open.substack.com/pub/kimmoore...

better, i think, when i work on a poem, to believe i have something to learn rather than something to say

So pleased the last of my albatrosses to fledge from my collection 'Love the Albatross' landed on the atoll that's The Dawntreader. Thanks so much to Ronnie and Dawn of Indigo Dreams for their faith in my poems, & my fellow poets therein for their company. Can’t think of a better home for them.

Thankyou @kimmoorepoet.bsky.social and @clareshawpoet.bsky.social for an amazing week 1 of the writing hours. A masterclass in leading a workshop- how you achieve making over 200 people feel held and confident to write is miraculous. Can’t make next week but will return later in the month ✍️

Thanks so much Katy! Love having you there 🥰

I got 3 poems from the first Writing Hour with @kimmoorepoet.bsky.social and @clareshawpoet.bsky.social this morning. One's my Substack warmup, one is so loaded I think it might be explosive and the third has been taunting me all day. Sometimes, you just need to give yourself permission to breathe.

❤️ love this!

Thanks to @clareshawpoet.bsky.social and @kimmoorepoet.bsky.social for wrangling & inspiring over 250 writers during this morning’s writing hour. My mood going into 2025…

Day 1 is done! Kim and Clare still have some spots available: come join the 266 other people who were writing this morning!

Let’s go! @kimmoorepoet.bsky.social @clareshawpoet.bsky.social !

Last call for January Writing Hours! If you or anyone you know would like to come but can't afford to, please send me a message. I'm doing admin later today and have some complimentary spaces to give out. www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/january-wr...

A brilliant evening with @helenmort.bsky.social and @kimmoorepoet.bsky.social at Manchester Poetry Library - really honoured to hear them perform together and have a conversation on how to continue fighting sexism, and the role that writing can play in that ✨

By email I mean message on here!

A very kind person has paid anonymously for a Bursary Ticket for someone who would like to attend but can't afford to do so. If this is you, or someone you know, please email and I will send you a ticket. www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/january-wr...

This case frightened me so much. That the men came from a relatively small geographical area, from all walks of life. Why do we know that 1 in 3 women will experience violence in their lives but we don't know how many men perpetrate it? www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

Day 16 and done! Thankyou so much to those of you who have been reading along and/or attending virtual or in person events. Time to rest now! open.substack.com/pub/kimmoore...

I'm online, right now, watching the final event in 16 Days of Activism against Gender-based violence with @kimmoorepoet.bsky.social hosted today at the @manmetuni.bsky.social poetry library. It's 6am for me, here in the Southern Hemisphere. Got a coffee and so excited to be able to join online.