Jake Polley, Kim Moore

Jacob Polley and Kim Moore read from their latest poetry collections. Kim reads from The Art of Falling, published earlier this year. Her poetry is firmly set in the north and draws on her experience as a peripatetic brass teacher, but it also explores the many different ways we can fall throughout our lives. Jake will read from The Havocs, his third poetry collection, published in 2013 and nominated for a T.S Eliot award. His work displays great virtuosity of form, drawing on the folkloric and mythic traditions of north Britain.

Kim Moore lives and works in south Cumbria. Her first full poetry collection, The Art of Falling, was published by Seren this year. She was runner-up in Lakeland Book of the Year 2013 with If we could speak like wolves. She won a New Writing North Award in 2014. She works part-time as a peripatetic brass teacher.

Jacob Polley was born in Carlisle, and now lives and works in Newcastle. He has three poetry collections, The Brink, Little Gods and, most recently, The Havocs, as well as a novel, Talk of the Town, set in Carlisle. Twice shortlisted for the T.S. Eliot Prize, he has received the Geoffrey Faber Memorial Prize and the Somerset Maugham Award.