Newcastle Poetry Festival 2023:

This event offers meditations on the dynamics of romantic and family relationships, and how these relationships affect our identities. Kim Moore’s recent collection All The Men I Never Married won the 2022 Forward Prize. Her first collection The Art of Falling won the Geoffrey Faber Memorial Prize and her non-fiction book What The Trumpet Taught Me was published by Smith/Doorstop in May 2022. Clare Shaw has four poetry collections with Bloodaxe: the most recent, Towards a General Theory of Love, was a Poetry Society Book of the Year 2022. They are Co-Director of the Kendal Poetry Festival, a Royal Literary Associate, a regular tutor for Wordsworth Grasmere and the Arvon Foundation. Mary Jean Chan’s debut collection Flèche, won the Costa Book Award for Poetry and was shortlisted for the International Dylan Thomas Prize. Their second poetry collection, Bright Fear, is forthcoming from Faber in summer 2023.

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