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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Self-Portrait Open Mic!
By Kim Moore
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 p...
A recording of August’s workshop; and details of September’s open mic
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to all the lovely people who came to this month’s live online event this week to listen to me and Kim reading new and unpublished poetry.
Big thanks to all the lovely people who came to this month’s live online event this week t...
EXPOSED: poetry and risk taking
plus a free link to tonight’s reading for our paying subscribers
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,...
The truth about ADHD: plus an online reading of new work
If you follow the press too closely you might assume that ADHD is another one of those new fangled made-up disorders like transgenderism or fibromyalgia or climate change. All the cool young folks - the message seems to be - are turning to...
July Reading Diary
For the last few weeks you’ve been getting daily missives from Clare as they walked the Pennine Way - because obviously walking over two hundred miles is not hard enough! I don’t know about you all - but I felt as if I was doing the walk as...
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Kim's collection “All the Men I Never Married” won the Forward Prize for Best Poetry Collection. "The House of Broken Things" is out with Corsair in May 2026. Clare's fifth collection "I Know What I Saw" will be published with Bloodaxe in early 2027.
Though I'm most often to be found collaborating on other blogs - like Shaw&Moore and b(l)og - this is my very own substack account! I'm Clare Shaw, writer, parent, mudlarker, long-distance walker, bog lover.
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