KIM MOORE
Join us for this very special afternoon of poetry and music, including Wainsgate’s trademark tea and homemade cake plus bookstall, as the sensational Kim Moore launches The House of Broken Things, her new collection of poems published by Corsair.
Kim will also be welcoming onstage some of her poetry friends – brilliant, acclaimed poets in their own right, each giving us a taste of their own new work – and her twin sister, Jody, who will play Franz Strauss’s beautiful Fantasie Opus 2 for French Horn with piano accompaniment from Dave Nelson.
She’s sleeping like a fairy tale girl, before the story teaches girls like her a lesson.
Kim Moore’s unflinching, spellbinding new collection is an astonishing portrait of a mother. Her body as tender, contested territory. Her instincts fierce. Her mind alive with memories of her own childhood, marvelled by love for her young daughter, sharpened with foreboding for her safety in a broken world that has so often made to break her, too. Fears, griefs and anxieties are paired with moments of great
tenderness, wit and revelation: brokenness can feel like a trap, but these poems always offer a way out. The House of Broken Things is a thrilling new work from one of the UK’s boldest and most exciting poets, and we are delighted to host this celebratory event at Wainsgate.
‘Kim Moore’s provocative poems are urgent and necessary and vital’ – Malika Booker
ABOUT KIM MOORE
Kim Moore’s second collection All the Men I Never Married (Seren, 2021) won the 2022 Forward Prize for Best Collection. Her first collection The Art of Falling (Seren 2015) won the Geoffrey Faber Memorial Prize. She also writes non-fiction, publishing What the Trumpet Taught Me (Smith/Doorstop, 2022) and Are You Judging Me Yet? Poetry and Everyday Sexism (Seren, 2023). She is a Senior Lecturer and Deputy Programme Leader of the MA and MFA in Creative Writing, at Manchester Metropolitan University.