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We are Clare Shaw and Kim Moore - poets, essayists and friends. We share essays and articles about writing and other things which interest us, along with new poetry, writing tips and exercises, live readings and workshops.
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Poetry Diary (opens the original)
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I’m currently sitting on a rather crowded train (but at least I have a seat!) on my way to Lancaster to examine a creative-critical PhD. It’s a grey, drizzly day. I walked to the train station in the rain because I couldn’t cope with the demands of getting to the bus stop on time. I sulked my way down the hill - the rain was that pathetic kind of rain that just makes you slightly damp rather than completely soaked. I usually love the summer - every other year I long for it. It’s usually a time w
Self Portrait Open Mic (opens the original)
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Self-Portrait Open Mic! (opens the original)
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Many years ago (ok it was a few months ago - but it feels like YEARS ago) I ran a workshop on self-portraits in poetry for our paid subscribers. Why self-portraits? Well, I am currently having great fun writing self-portrait poems, and I always like designing workshops around what I’m thinking about in my own writing. Clare has also started writing Self-Portrait poems, or has at least threatened to. My most recent self-portrait poem that I was goaded into writing yesterday by Clare was ‘Self-Por
A recording of August’s workshop; and details of September’s open mic (opens the original)
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Big thanks to all the lovely people who came to this month’s live online event this week to listen to me and Kim reading new and unpublished poetry. - this will be available for the next seven days. <a href="https://emea01.safelinks.protection.outlook.com/?url=https%3A%2F%2Fus02web.zoom.us%2Frec%2Fshare%2FOkVuefcext1_y9un2mMdkUeg_41216UUyPoQln_VL0AQXfNib47ldph0-Ckbw1l4.MYJYQ-oW7nDWakXF&data=05%7C02%7C%7C4eb10dac09af46369d6708df047d8698%7C84df9e7fe9f640afb435aaaaaaaaaaaa%7C1%7C0%7C639234609298869
EXPOSED: poetry and risk taking (opens the original)
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I write to communicate. Of course I love the texture of words, their shape, their inner life. Of course I love the way that words lead me down paths I didn’t know were there, how they illuminate corridors in my brains, how doors in my mind swing open. Of course I love the craft for its own sake, the satisfaction of job done, a poem as solid as a new box; the magic of the art, the poem as its own being brought into sudden, independent life. But ultimately I write because I want people to listen,
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