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.
Kim's collection โAll the Men I Never Marriedโ 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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....there's a time and a place for That Sort of Thing (and it's definitely not here and it's definitely not now!). Creative provocations on poetry, place writing, the inappropriate, the out-of-context, the bizarre, the beautiful, the lost-and-found.
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Author of THE GHOST LAKE (memoir), BLACKBIRD SINGING AT DUSK (poetry). Fellow of the Folger Shakespeare Library. Northern type.
A cosy space for clued-up writers, aspiring scribblers, and anyone with the itch to get words on the page. Open & honest insights into the writing life. Thereโs always coffee in the pot.
Notes about my poetry, my workshops and what it's like to do a PhD. Living and working in the Yorkshire Dales. The sound of a train called SIXTY rumbling a few years away.