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Kim Moore (born 1981) is an English poet from Leicester who lives and works in West Yorkshire. 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 and a factory worker, was born in 1981 in Leicester, England. She moved to Barrow, Cumbria in 2004, and now lives in West Yorkshire. She has been a music teacher and a trumpet player, and worked for the Cumbria Music Service as a peripatetic brass teacher. In 2020, she completed her doctorate in 'Poetry and Everyday Sexism', assisted by a Vice-Chancellor's Bursary (awarded in 2016), at Manchester Metropolitan University, where she is a Senior Lecturer in Creative Writing.

Career

Moore's poetry has been published in 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 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, on Welsh singer Cerys Matthews's album We Come From The Sun. Since 2021, she has judged 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.

Alongside colleague Michael Symmons Roberts, Moore has been noted as one of the poets defining the city of Manchester "through the power of poetry". With Hannah Lowe, she was a guest editor for The Poetry Review's Autumn 2022 issue. In 2023, she was the poet in residence at Trafford General Hospital as part of a project to promote and support health workers in sharing their NHS stories to celebrate the 75th anniversary of the NHS. The project was funded by the Arts and Humanities Research Council led by Manchester Metropolitan University (MMU). With colleagues Frazer Heritage and Sarah Cleave, Moore organised the "16 Days of Activism Against Gender-Based Violence" programme in late 2024 through MMU, where she also talked about her "experience of domestic violence." The festival concluded with poetry readings by Helen Mort and Moore.

Collections

Moore's 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."

Moore's 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 placed 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. Poet Caroline Bracken, reviewing the book for Nation.Cymru, called it "devastating and devastatingly well written."

Non-fiction

What The Trumpet Taught Me, Moore's debut non-fiction book made up of short prose pieces, was published by Smith/Doorstop in 2022. A review of this "collection of vivid and immediate snapshots" in the Lancashire Times called it "a Bildungsroman defined by struggle".

Her second non-fiction/hybrid book, titled Are You Judging Me Yet?: Poetry and Everyday Sexism (2023), was noted in New Welsh Review as a book one should read "whether you are a feminist or not".

Books

Poetry

• If We Could Speak Like Wolves (Smith/Doorstop, 2011) ISBN 9781906613754
• The Art of Falling (Seren, 2015) ISBN 9781781722374
• All the Men I Never Married (Seren, 2022) ISBN 9781781726419

As editor

• With Kerry Darbishire and Liz Nuttall, This Place I know: A New Anthology of Cumbrian Poetry (Handstand Press, 2018) ISBN 9780957660960
• With Ben Wilkinson and Paul Deaton, The Result Is What You See Today: Poems About Running (Smith/Doorstop, 2019) ISBN 9781912196814

Non-fiction

• What the Trumpet Taught Me (Smith/Doorstop, 2022) ISBN 9781914914140

Hybrid

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

Awards

• 2010: Geoffrey Dearmer Prize
• 2011: Eric Gregory Award
• 2014: Northern Writers' Award, New Writing North
• 2017: Geoffrey Faber Memorial Prize 2016, for The Art of Falling
• 2022: Forward Prize for Best Collection, for All the Men I Never Married

References

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7. "Dr Kim Moore". Manchester Metropolitan University. Retrieved 18 January 2025.
8. "Kim Moore". Candlestick Press. Retrieved 19 January 2025.
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10. ^ "Cerys Matthews Releases New Poetry Album – We Come From The Sun". KLOF Mag. 15 January 2021. Retrieved 18 January 2025.
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12. "Rory Waterman & Hive New Poets Prize Winners Reading". Hive South Yorkshire. 13 August 2024. Retrieved 18 January 2025.
13. "The 39th Poetry Business International Book & Pamphlet Competition". Orbis Journal. Retrieved 18 January 2025.
14. Oldfield, Emily (28 September 2017). "The Manchester poets defining the city through the power of poetry". I Love MCR. Retrieved 20 January 2025.
15. "University poet in residence at Trafford General Hospital to mark 75th anniversary of NHS". Manchester University NHS Foundation Trust (MFT). 13 February 2023. Retrieved 20 January 2025.
16. Lengden, Bradley (5 November 2024). "Manchester Poetry Library unveils 16 Days of Activism Against Gender-Based Violence". Manchester Wire. Retrieved 20 January 2025.
17. Burgess, Immy (22 November 2024). "16 Days of Activism: Forward Prize-winning poet Kim Moore – "If I'd had those conversations when I was an 18-year-old girl, it would have changed my life."". aAh! Magazine. Retrieved 20 January 2025.
18. Sanders, Lenny (22 March 2021). "Interview with Kim Moore". The Poetry Business. Retrieved 20 January 2025.
19. Simmons, Lowri (13 December 2024). "16 Days of Activism – Day 16: Dr Kim Moore and Helen Mort raise close festival with powerful discussion on poetry as resistance". aAh! Magazine. Retrieved 21 January 2025.
20. Sampson, Fiona (8 December 2012). "Books of the Year 2012: Poetry". The Independent. Retrieved 18 January 2025.
21. Wong, Jennifer (22 July 2012). "Review: If We Could Speak Like Wolves". Jennifer Wong. Retrieved 19 January 2025.
22. "Kim Moore wins the Geoffrey Faber Memorial Prize for Poetry 2016". Faber and Faber. Retrieved 19 January 2025.
23. Onwuemezi, Natasha (30 November 2017). "Kim Moore wins Geoffrey Faber prize". The Bookseller. Retrieved 19 January 2025.
24. "Kim Moore wins Geoffrey Faber Memorial Prize". Seren Books. 5 December 2017. Retrieved 19 January 2025.
25. ^ "Forward Prizes for Poetry - Previous Years". Forward Arts Foundation. Retrieved 18 January 2025.
26. "All the Men I Never Married, by Kim Moore". Poetry Foundation. Retrieved 19 January 2025.
27. "Top poetry books of 2022". The Times of India. 29 November 2022. Retrieved 18 January 2025.
28. Bracken, Caroline (31 October 2021). "Poetry roundup: Caroline Bracken reviews compelling collections from three female poets". Nation.Cymru. Retrieved 20 January 2025.
29. Whitaker, Steve (5 July 2022). "Brassed Off: What The Trumpet Taught Me by Kim Moore". Lancashire Times. Retrieved 20 January 2025.
30. Quentin, TK. "Are You Judging Me Yet? Poetry and Everyday Sexism". New Welsh Review. Retrieved 20 January 2025.
31. "This Place I know". Books Cumbria. Retrieved 21 January 2025.
32. "Geoffrey Dearmer Prize: History". The Poetry Society. Retrieved 18 January 2025.
33. "Eric Gregory Awards: Past winners". The Society of Authors. Retrieved 18 January 2025.
34. "Northern Writers' Awards: Winners 2014". New Writing North. Retrieved 18 January 2025.
35. "Kim Moore wins Geoffrey Faber Prize". The Poetry Society. 1 December 2017. Retrieved 18 January 2025.

External links

• A selection of Kim Moore's poems, at Versopolis

• 1981 births
• Living people
• Alumni of Manchester Metropolitan University
• Academics of Manchester Metropolitan University
• 21st-century English poets
• English women poets
• Writers from Leicester