MINCE PIES IN MERRIE ENGLAND

Recent gifts from the God of Mudlarking.

Bog lovers! PEAT IS ..... please complete this phrase in whatever way you wish - be it scientific fact, hope or fear, place name, memory, sensory observation, species of creature or fauna, wild image or metaphor ..... and type it into the comments! THANK YOU!

My latest Substack, on my experience with A Writing Chance and tackling the marginalisation of working class writers. kimmoore30.substack.com/p/a-writing-...

There are still spaces available for tonight’s Getting Into the Bog workshop. “We’ll explore how the peatland, moors and marshes can become an expression of our own stories.” Follow the link to book your place. DM me if you need to join us at a reduced price. www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/getting-in...

This is happening tomorrow, Tues 28th 7-9pm, online. Interactive, generative, friendly - I'd love you to come along, so if you need a reduced price ticket, DM me. "Creative language can immerse us in the rich sensory world of the landscape". www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/getting-in...

Peter Riley is a quietly defining force in British poetry. It amazes me that he lives among us in Hebden Bridge. Peter now lives with Parkinson's and I feel so privileged he has asked me to read his work alongside him on November 4th at the Dusty Miller in Mytholmroyd. It’ll be a wonderful night.

My latest Substack, on Poetry and Wellbeing, plus me, Gwyneth Lewis, and a dead frog. kimmoore30.substack.com/p/poetry-and...

This is Kevin. Kevin is one of a small herd of wild Welsh mountain ponies looked after by my partner. Kevin says Hi.

“Getting into the bog” — an online writing workshop. Tuesday October 28th, 7-9pm. “We’ll explore how the peatland, moors and marshes can become an expression of our own stories.” Click below to book your place. Proceeds to “The Book of Bogs” crowdfunder. www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/getting-in...

My latest Substack: moors, bogs, and 19 writers in a storm! kimmoore30.substack.com/p/even-the-s...

My latest Substack in which Kim and I choose a profile picture which expresses the intellect, authority and nuance of our collections, awards, anthologies and other literary achievements. Lots of exciting stuff coming up on Shaw and Moore. Read this post for news. www.facebook.com/share/1D3C6w...

You don't have to be queer to come to this online Poetry Business workshop Tuesday 2nd September at 11am! - you just have to want to read and write great poetry in great company!

This autumn, join the Poetry Business and me for some exciting, fun, generative online workshops. All timings are UK time (BST/GMT), but wherever you are in the world, we’d love to see you. To book, see the following links. www.tickettailor.com/events/thepo... www.tickettailor.com/events/thepo...

Day 15: Grosmont to Robin Hoods Bay: the journey's end. My final Substack post of our Coast to Coast. Finches, the pain of one journey's end, and the start of new journeys. Thanks for walking with me. I didn't know how big and beautiful this path could be. kimmoore30.substack.com/p/coast-to-c...

The penultimate day of our Coast to Coast journey. Here's my Substack post, on heather, on love, on our connections with landscapes. On our first glimpse of the sea.💜🌳🚂🌤️🌊 kimmoore30.substack.com/p/coast-to-c...

Day 13 of our Coast-to-Coast journey. Today's blog post is on meltdowns and anxiety among the beauty of heather, eyebright, yarrow, good Samaritans, and reconnecting with the OG hikers. kimmoore30.substack.com/p/coast-to-c...

Here's my blog post on Day 11 of our Coast-to-Coast journey. On heat, the first goodbyes, and what leads people to walking.🌞🌾 kimmoore30.substack.com/p/coast-to-c...

It's Day 10 of our Coast-to-Coast journey. Here's today's Substack post, on the Vale of Mowbray, quietness, and allegedly unremarkable landscapes.🌞⛅️🌼🌳 kimmoore30.substack.com/p/coast-to-c...

Just two weeks since 400 Kate Bushes danced Wuthering Heights on the moors which inspired the song and the book! Here’s a tiny film about it m.youtube.com/watch?v=0Txl...

My Substack post on Day 9 of Coast-to-Coast. On Niamh.🌳🪻🌺🌼🌞 kimmoore30.substack.com/p/coast-to-c...

Here’s my Substack post on Days 7 and 8 of our #coasttocoast journey – on warm welcomes, sensory overload, stepping stones, and my new official favourite Iron Age site.🏞️🌤️🍻 kimmoore30.substack.com/p/coast-to-c...

Day 6 of Coast-to-Coast. Here's today's blog post, on the furthest I have ever walked, songs about yarrow, and leaving the mountains behind us. kimmoore30.substack.com/p/coast-to-c...

Day 5 of Coast-to-Coast. An honesty box, and honest reflections on pain.🏞️⛰️🌲🌳⛅️ kimmoore30.substack.com/p/coast-to-c...

Day 4 of Coast-to-Coast. Love, old friends, building community in difficult times, and wild mountain thyme. Follow the journey here.🌦🌳⛰️🏞️ kimmoore30.substack.com/p/coast-to-c...

Day 3 of Coast-to-Coast. 'Ing' words in the face of Storm Floris. Follow the journey here. kimmoore30.substack.com/p/coast-to-c...

A 90-minute masterclass for our Raising Voices Project and for Give Peat A Chance. www.mklitfest.org/digginginthe... @clareshawpoet.bsky.social @betarish.bsky.social @jessmookherjee.bsky.social @calebparkinpoet.bsky.social @bloodaxebooks.bsky.social @ninearchespress.bsky.social

A toad just urinated on my hand. Night night, everyone, sleep tight.

Beautiful, broken, lost and unwanted.

An elegant and accessible alternative to our Mass Wuther: Wondering Heights. Take part from your bed, your garden, or the moors - lucy-barker.co.uk/wondering-he... #bucylarker #Bradford2025 #wonderingheights

Here’s what we’re doing and why we’re doing it.

Here's a nice thing! I created this set of bog-themed resources and workshop plans for the Poetry Society. They are suitable for kids and adults, and you can download them for free. resources.poetrysociety.org.uk/lesson/bogs-...

We're dancing to celebrate the genius of Kate Bush and Emily Brontë, to raise money for Women's Aid, and to protect our moors, their curlews and bogs and cultural legacy from the proposal to build England's biggest onshore windfarm on their protected peat. www.facebook.com/share/p/1AUz...

Thrilled to work with three iconic poets to deliver this online masterclass.

In 2023, there were over a million recorded incidents of violence against women in England and Wales alone. I can't wait to see these figures plummet as transwomen are denied entry into women’s toilets, hospital wards and sports. Thank God JK Rowling and her cronies defended women so effectively.

This Saturday is Badger Saturday! Join us for an online hour of badger writing. Create badger poems and stories - and your words could be included in a new Poetry Pharmacy Remedy to be launched by Chris Packham for Brocktober, in support of The Badger Trust. www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/wild-writi...

Greta Thunberg doesn’t just give me hope. She gives me pride, inspiration, and a load of ideas. And anxiety - I hope she’s okay.

Little universes I have found and taken home

Digging in the Dirt: Adventures in Ecopoetry Masterclass. This could be one of my favourite gigs of the year.

"What can you do? You have to laugh, you have to play, be a living example. You have to find the path the Green Man found, find your real place in the world. At any point in your life, you can become green again" from “The Wildest Dream: an imagined history of the Green Man”, David Gee.

Today is International Peatland Day. And tomorrow’s Wild Writing session is all about peat and its binary-busting wonders. www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/30-days-wi...

Brambles and bindweed, dandelions and dogrose - what we'll be writing about tomorrow and you're welcome to join us www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/30-days-wi...

First day of Wild Writing tomorrow at 9am. Join us live or watch the recording later ... monthly and weekly tickets options available, including Pay-What-You-Can.

Mosab Abu Toha and others are livestreaming TONIGHT from James's Church Piccadilly at 7.30pm, fundraising for Medical Aid for Palestine. Here is the link to the livestream. Please share. www.youtube.com/live/4Ft0NGJ... Please watch and most importantly DONATE to Medical Aid For Palestinians (MAP).

2 DAYS left until 30 Days Wild — a wild-writing workshop every morning in June, with recordings available to watch later. Our first session will focus on the wild ways of the wind. Weekly and pay-what-you-can options still available. Get your ticket here: www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/30-days-wi... 🌳🌪️🌬️

here's a fresh substack: free and tasty, still warm from the substack oven. kimmoore30.substack.com/p/making-our...

Tonight's "Nothing More Beautiful" online poetry workshop was a thing of wonder. Love and tears and fruit and loads of money raised for the Good Law Project's fight for trans rights.

Just one day left to book your place at "Nothing More Beautiful: joy, desire, resistance" - online creative writing workshop with Clare Shaw, 7-9pm Thursday 22nd May. All proceeds to Good Law Project and their fight for trans rights.

Small broken things.