Kim Moore’s first collection The Art of Falling (Seren, 2015) won the 2016 Geoffrey Faber Memorial Prize. Her poem In That Year from this collection was shortlisted for the Forward Prize for Best Single Poem 2015. She won a Northern Writers Award in 2014, an Eric Gregory Award in 2011 and the Geoffrey Dearmer Prize in 2010. Her pamphlet If We Could Speak Like Wolves (Smith/Doorstop, 2012) was a winner in the 2012 Poetry Business Pamphlet Competition, was shortlisted for a Michael Marks award and named in The Independent as a Book of the Year. She is a PhD candidate at Manchester Metropolitan University and is working on her second collection. She was one of the judges for the 2020 Forward Prizes for Poetry and is the Co-Director of Kendal Poetry Festival.
Building a Sustainable and Authentic Poetry Practice
How can you balance spontaneous inspiration with productivity as a way of earning a sustainable creative living? What is an artist’s role in our complex, changing world? How can you generate new ideas and overcome creative blocks? How do you shape an original poem, pamphlet or collection? How do you get started, and more importantly- how do you carry on? Come and explore these key questions and more with award-winning poets Kim Moore and Roger Robinson. During the week, you’ll be introduced to new techniques to unlock your writing and creativity, develop your understanding of past and contemporary poetic landscapes, and hone your voice. This course is aimed at both beginners looking to get started and more experienced writers looking to invigorate their poetry. Come prepared for lively group workshops, supportive and constructive one-to-one tutorials, and a chance to build a refreshed, sustainable and authentic poetry practice which will stay with you long after the course.
Tutors
Kim Moore
Roger Robinson
Roger Robinson, a globally recognised writer and performer, boasts an impressive array of accolades, including the T.S. Eliot Prize 2019, RSL Ondaatje Prize 2020, and RSL Fellowship. Notably, he's been lauded by Decibel & Arts Council England as pivotal in shaping Black-British literature. His work features prominently in esteemed anthologies like The Forward Book Of Poetry 2024 (Faber & Faber, 2023) and The Penguin Book of New Black Writing in Britain (Penguin, 2021). Roger's commissions span prestigious institutions such as the BBC, Tate, and The National Portrait Gallery. He's an esteemed judge for renowned literary awards like the Folio Prize and T.S. Eliot Prize, with his poem A Portable Paradise part of the GCSE English Literature syllabus. Roger's workshops, recognised for excellence, have garnered acclaim, with his books A Portable Paradise (Peepal Tree Press, 2019), Home is Not A Place (William Collins, 2022) and The Butterfly Hotel (The Peepal Tree Press, 2013) earning multiple nominations. As a co-founder of Spoke Lab and Malika’s Kitchen, he contributes significantly to global literary communities.
Guest Reader
Malika Booker (Digital)
Malika Booker, a Caribbean British poet is the first woman to win the Forward Prize for Best Single poem twice: The Little Miracles (2020) and Libation (2023). A lecturer at Manchester Metropolitan University, co-founder Malika’s Poetry Kitchen (A writer’s collective), her collection Pepper Seed (Peepal Tree Press, 2013) was shortlisted for the OCM Bocas prize and the Seamus Heaney Centre 2014 prize. She is published with poets Sharon Olds and Warsan Shire in Penguin Modern Poets 3 (Penguin, 2017). A Cave Canem Fellow, A Complete Works Fellow, inaugural Poet in Residence at The Royal Shakespeare Company, awarded the Cholmondeley Award (2019) for outstanding contribution to poetry and elected a Royal Society of Literature Fellow (2022).