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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First Steps Recording
By Kim Moore and Clare Shaw
Hi all
April / May Reading Diary
April and May is marking season in university, and marking always swallows me whole. As a task, it’s not one my ADHD brain copes with very well. I can’t finish it in one dopamine fuelled rush. It stretches over weeks, and always fills up ev...
First Steps - Tonight!
Debut collection reading
Clare Shaw and I will be reading from our first collections tonight - if you are a paid subscriber, this is included in your monthly fee of £5 (or £50 for the year). We start at 7.30pm and we’ll be done by 9pm.
More Adventures with the House
Kim here - I promised I would update on my adventures with The House of Broken Things, so here it is!
Last time I wrote, I’d launched the book at Wainsgate Chapel in Hebden Bridge, and then a few days later, launched it in a different dire...
Our June event - "First Steps"
By Kim Moore
As Clare said in a recent post, our monthly subscription price has been slightly increased (from £4 to £5), or you can join us for a year for £50. As well as supporting the writing of articles and essays (over 220 at the last...
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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.
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