Kim Moore’s pamphlet If We Could Speak Like Wolves was a winner in the 2011 Poetry Business Pamphlet Competition. Her first collection The Art of Falling (Seren 2015) won the Geoffrey Faber Memorial Prize. Her second collection All The Men I Never Married (Seren, 2021) won the 2022 Forward Prize for Best Collection. Her first non-fiction book What The Trumpet Taught Me was published by Smith/Doorstop in May 2022. A hybrid book of lyric essays and poetry Are You Judging Me Yet? Poetry and Everyday Sexism was published by Seren in March 2023. She's worked as a freelance writer for many years, before joining Manchester Metropolitan University as a Senior Lecturer in Creative Writing at Manchester Metropolitan University.
Building a Sustainable and Authentic Poetry Practice
Mon 2 June 2025 - Fri 6 June 2025
Tutors
/ Kim Moore & Roger Robinson
Guest Reader
/ Malika Booker (Digital)
Course Fee
/
From
£650 per person
Genre
/ Poetry
Language
/ English
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.
Bursaries
One £250 bursary space is available for this course. To apply, please complete this application form Deadline for applications: Wednesday 2 April 2025
For further information about the support available, please visit our Financial Assistance page: https://tynewydd.wales/courses-retreats/financial-support/
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).