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'''Kim Moore''' (born 1981<ref>{{Cite web |title=Kim Moore |url=https://poems.poetrysociety.org.uk/poets/kim-moore/ |access-date=2025-01-18 |website=The Poetry Society |language=en-UK}}</ref><ref name=":3" />) is an English poet from ] who now lives and works in ]. She won an Eric Gregory Award in 2011, and her debut collection ''The Art of Falling'' (], 2015) won the ] in 2017. Her second collection ''All the Men I Never Married'' was awarded the ] for Best Collection in 2022. '''Kim Moore''' (born 1981<ref>{{Cite web |title=Kim Moore |url=https://poems.poetrysociety.org.uk/poets/kim-moore/ |access-date=2025-01-18 |website=The Poetry Society |language=en-UK}}</ref><ref name=":3" />) is an English poet from ] who now lives and works in ]. She won an Eric Gregory Award in 2011, and her debut collection ''The Art of Falling'' (], 2015) won the ] in 2017. Her second collection ''All the Men I Never Married'' was awarded the ] for Best Collection in 2022.


==Life and education== ==Life and education==
Moore, the daughter of a scaffolder, was born in 1981 in Leicester, ]. She moved to ], Cumbria in 2004, where she now lives.<ref>{{Cite web |title=Kim Moore |url=https://www.poetryinternational.com/en/poets-poems/poets/poet/102-27296_Moore |access-date=2025-01-18 |website=Poetry International |language=en-UK}}</ref> She has been a music teacher and a trumpet player,<ref name=":2">{{Cite web |title=If we could speak like Kim Moore |url=https://www.poetryinternational.com/en/poets-poems/article/104-27575_If-we-could-speak-like-Kim-Moore |access-date=2025-01-19 |website=Poetry International |date=3 December 2015 |language=en-UK}}</ref> and worked for the Cumbria Music Service as a peripatetic brass teacher for over a decade.<ref>{{Cite web |title=Kim Moore |url=https://www.versopolis.com/poet/6/kim-moore |access-date=2025-01-19 |website=Versopolis - The European Review of Poetry, Books and Culture |language=en-GB}}</ref><ref name=":3" /> In 2016, she completed her doctorate in 'Poetry and Everyday Sexism', assisted by a Vice-Chancellor’s Bursary, at ], where she is now a Senior Lecturer in Creative Writing, teaching poetry across undergraduate and postgraduate levels.<ref>{{Cite web |title=Dr Kim Moore |url=https://www.mmu.ac.uk/staff/profile/dr-kim-moore#t-tabs_staff_profile-0 |access-date=2025-01-18 |website=Manchester Metropolitan University |language=en-UK}}</ref> Moore, the daughter of a scaffolder, was born in 1981 in Leicester, ]. She moved to ], Cumbria in 2004, where she now lives.<ref>{{Cite web |title=Kim Moore |url=https://www.poetryinternational.com/en/poets-poems/poets/poet/102-27296_Moore |access-date=2025-01-18 |website=Poetry International |language=en-UK}}</ref> She has been a music teacher and a trumpet player,<ref name=":2">{{Cite web |title=If we could speak like Kim Moore |url=https://www.poetryinternational.com/en/poets-poems/article/104-27575_If-we-could-speak-like-Kim-Moore |access-date=2025-01-19 |website=Poetry International |date=3 December 2015 |language=en-UK}}</ref> and worked for the Cumbria Music Service as a peripatetic brass teacher for over a decade.<ref>{{Cite web |title=Kim Moore |url=https://www.versopolis.com/poet/6/kim-moore |access-date=2025-01-19 |website=Versopolis - The European Review of Poetry, Books and Culture |language=en-GB}}</ref><ref name=":3" /> In 2016, she completed her doctorate in 'Poetry and Everyday Sexism', assisted by a Vice-Chancellor's Bursary, at ], where she is now a Senior Lecturer in Creative Writing, teaching poetry across undergraduate and postgraduate levels.<ref>{{Cite web |title=Dr Kim Moore |url=https://www.mmu.ac.uk/staff/profile/dr-kim-moore#t-tabs_staff_profile-0 |access-date=2025-01-18 |website=Manchester Metropolitan University |language=en-UK}}</ref>


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British poet and lecturer in creative writing (born 1981)

Kim Moore
Born1981
Leicester, England
OccupationPoet, lecturer
LanguageEnglish
NationalityBritish
EducationPhD
Alma materManchester Metropolitan University

Kim Moore (born 1981) is an English poet from Leicester who now lives and works in Cumbria. She won an Eric Gregory Award in 2011, and her debut collection The Art of Falling (Seren, 2015) won the Geoffrey Faber Memorial Prize in 2017. Her second collection All the Men I Never Married was awarded the Forward Prize for Best Collection in 2022.

Life and education

Moore, the daughter of a scaffolder, was born in 1981 in Leicester, England. She moved to Barrow, Cumbria in 2004, where she now lives. She has been a music teacher and a trumpet player, and worked for the Cumbria Music Service as a peripatetic brass teacher for over a decade. In 2016, she completed her doctorate in 'Poetry and Everyday Sexism', assisted by a Vice-Chancellor's Bursary, at Manchester Metropolitan University, where she is now a Senior Lecturer in Creative Writing, teaching poetry across undergraduate and postgraduate levels.

Career

Moore is a widely published poet, with her work appearing in such journals as Poetry, Poetry Ireland Review, and Poetry International, in the Forward Prize anthologies, and in several Candlestick Press pamphlets. She has read her poetry widely at events and festivals, including for the Ledbury Poetry Festival, a commission from whom led to her poem 'For my daughter' during the lockdown. Moore was shortlisted for the Forward Prize for Best Poem in 2015, and was a judge of the 2018 National Poetry Competition, along with Kei Miller and Mark Waldron, and of the Forward Prizes in 2020. In 2021, she was one of the featured poets, alongside Raymond Antrobus, Liz Berry, Anthony Anaxagorou, Imtiaz Dharker, Kayo Chingonyi and others, on the Welsh singer Cerys Matthews's album We Come From The Sun (Decca Records). Since 2021, she has judged both of The Poetry Business prizes, the New Poets Prize, and the International Book and Pamphlet Competition. Her work has been translated into many languages as part of the Versopolis project.

Collections

Her first chapbook, If We Could Speak Like Wolves, was a winner in the 2011 Poetry Business Book and Pamphlet Competition, selected by Carol Ann Duffy. It was later shortlisted for both the Michael Marks Awards and the Lakeland Book of the Year in 2011, and was chosen as one of the Independent Books of the Year in 2012. The poet Jennifer Wong wrote about the poems in the pamphlet as marking "the development of a sensitive and bold voice, and hold as much beauty as unrest."

Her debut collection The Art of Falling was published by Seren four years after her Poetry Business Competition win. Tsead Bruinja wrote about the book that it, "like her chapbook, features lots of wolves." About the perceived wolves, he says, they "cry out loud throughout her poems". The Art of Falling won the annual Geoffrey Faber Memorial Prize 2016, selected by Gillian Clarke, Tom Gatti and Katharine Towers. This award, for Moore's collection that "draws from personal experience", was announced at the end of November, in 2017.

Moore's second collection from Seren All the Men I Never Married, published in 2022, went on to win the 2022 Forward Prize for Best Collection. The chair of judges at the award ceremony called the collection "full of dangerous wit and knowing humour". In her review of the collection, Megan Fernandes ended up placing her among the "most compelling poets", stating that she had "never read a mediocre poem" by Moore. The Times of India placed Moore's All the Men I Never Married alongside Diane Seuss's frank: sonnets on their "Top poetry books of 2022" list.

Books

Poetry

As editor

  • With Ben Wilkinson and Paul Deaton, The Result Is What You See Today: Poems About Running (Smith/Doorstop, 2019) ISBN 9781912196814

Non-fiction

Hybrid

  • Are You Judging Me Yet?: Poetry and Everyday Sexism (Seren, 2023) ISBN 9781781726877

Awards

References

  1. "Kim Moore". The Poetry Society. Retrieved 18 January 2025.
  2. ^ Flood, Alison (30 November 2017). "Kim Moore's 'thrilling' debut poetry collection wins Geoffrey Faber prize". The Guardian. Retrieved 18 January 2025.
  3. "Kim Moore". Poetry International. Retrieved 18 January 2025.
  4. ^ "If we could speak like Kim Moore". Poetry International. 3 December 2015. Retrieved 19 January 2025.
  5. "Kim Moore". Versopolis - The European Review of Poetry, Books and Culture. Retrieved 19 January 2025.
  6. "Dr Kim Moore". Manchester Metropolitan University. Retrieved 18 January 2025.
  7. "Kim Moore". Candlestick Press. Retrieved 19 January 2025.
  8. ^ "Kim Moore". Poetry Foundation. Retrieved 15 January 2025.
  9. ^ "Cerys Matthews Releases New Poetry Album – We Come From The Sun". KLOF Mag. 15 January 2021. Retrieved 18 January 2025.
  10. "The 2021 New Poets Prize Winners". The Poetry Business. Retrieved 18 January 2025.
  11. "Rory Waterman & Hive New Poets Prize Winners Reading". Hive South Yorkshire. 13 August 2024. Retrieved 18 January 2025.
  12. "The 39th Poetry Business International Book & Pamphlet Competition". Orbis Journal. Retrieved 18 January 2025.
  13. Sampson, Fiona (8 December 2012). "Books of the Year 2012: Poetry". The Independent. Retrieved 18 January 2025.
  14. Wong, Jennifer (22 July 2012). "Review: If We Could Speak Like Wolves". Jennifer Wong. Retrieved 19 January 2025.
  15. "Kim Moore wins the Geoffrey Faber Memorial Prize for Poetry 2016". Faber and Faber. Retrieved 19 January 2025.
  16. Onwuemezi, Natasha (30 November 2017). "Kim Moore wins Geoffrey Faber prize". The Bookseller. Retrieved 19 January 2025.
  17. "Kim Moore wins Geoffrey Faber Memorial Prize". Seren Books. 5 December 2017. Retrieved 19 January 2025.
  18. ^ "Forward Prizes for Poetry - Previous Years". Forward Arts Foundation. Retrieved 18 January 2025.
  19. "All the Men I Never Married, by Kim Moore". Poetry Foundation. Retrieved 19 January 2025.
  20. "Top poetry books of 2022". The Times of India. 29 November 2022. Retrieved 18 January 2025.
  21. "Geoffrey Dearmer Prize: History". The Poetry Society. Retrieved 18 January 2025.
  22. "Eric Gregory Awards: Past winners". The Society of Authors. Retrieved 18 January 2025.
  23. "Northern Writers' Awards: Winners 2014". New Writing North. Retrieved 18 January 2025.
  24. "Kim Moore wins Geoffrey Faber Prize". The Poetry Society. 1 December 2017. Retrieved 18 January 2025.

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