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If We Could Speak Like Wolves
If We Could Speak Like Wolves was a winner in the 2011 Poetry Business Book & Pamphlet Competition, chosen by Carol Ann Duffy, and was selected as one of the Independent's Books of the Year in 2012.
"These are terrifically assured poems – sensual, perceptive, entertaining – which bridge the gap between feeling and utterance with a genuine lyric gift."
Carol Ann Duffy
"These are terrifically assured poems – sensual, perceptive, entertaining – which bridge the gap between feeling and utterance with a genuine lyric gift."
Carol Ann Duffy
- GenresPoetry
28 pages, Kindle Edition
First published June 25, 2012
About the author
Kim Moore
9 books35 followersKim Moore lives in Barrow, Cumbria. She has a PhD from Manchester Metropolitan University, and now works there as a Lecturer in Creative Writing.
Her poems have been published in the TLS, Poetry Review, Poetry London, and elsewhere. She regularly appears at festivals and events, her prize-winning pamphlet, If We Could Speak Like Wolves (Smith-Doorstop) was chosen as an Independent Book of the Year in 2012 and was shortlisted for other prizes. Moore won an Eric Gregory Award in 2011 and the Geoffrey Dearmer Prize in 2010. In 2014 she won a Northern Promise award. She writes a thoughtful blog and has a wide social media following. The Art of Falling (Seren) is her debut collection. Her latest poetry collection All The Men I Never Married (Seren, 2021) won the Forward Prize for Best Collection. What The Trumpet Taught Me (Smith/Doorstop, 2022) is her first creative non-fiction book, followed by Are You Judging Me Yet? Poetry and Everyday Sexism (Seren, 2023).
Her poems have been published in the TLS, Poetry Review, Poetry London, and elsewhere. She regularly appears at festivals and events, her prize-winning pamphlet, If We Could Speak Like Wolves (Smith-Doorstop) was chosen as an Independent Book of the Year in 2012 and was shortlisted for other prizes. Moore won an Eric Gregory Award in 2011 and the Geoffrey Dearmer Prize in 2010. In 2014 she won a Northern Promise award. She writes a thoughtful blog and has a wide social media following. The Art of Falling (Seren) is her debut collection. Her latest poetry collection All The Men I Never Married (Seren, 2021) won the Forward Prize for Best Collection. What The Trumpet Taught Me (Smith/Doorstop, 2022) is her first creative non-fiction book, followed by Are You Judging Me Yet? Poetry and Everyday Sexism (Seren, 2023).
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December 11, 2022
Reflections and lessons learned:
“There's a door frame in the channel made of thin black twisted wood
When the tide is in, it leads to water.
When the tide is out, it leads to mud”
The timing of the prize winning was coincidental in this discovery, but I’m looking forward to the ride… a great introduction to the work with more of a humanistic alongside the nature mix than I expected
“There's a door frame in the channel made of thin black twisted wood
When the tide is in, it leads to water.
When the tide is out, it leads to mud”
The timing of the prize winning was coincidental in this discovery, but I’m looking forward to the ride… a great introduction to the work with more of a humanistic alongside the nature mix than I expected
June 27, 2023
Four and a half stars
It is her assured voice which drives these poems. She uses humour like a weapon. There are some great images and almost every poem reads like an excerpt from a bigger story.
It is her assured voice which drives these poems. She uses humour like a weapon. There are some great images and almost every poem reads like an excerpt from a bigger story.
November 20, 2024
Excellent collection of poems
From start to finish Kim writes in a straightforward, hard-hitting yet humorous style that tells stories of life both imagined and real, often based in her Lake District backyard. Beautiful and brutal, yet refreshing view of the world.
From start to finish Kim writes in a straightforward, hard-hitting yet humorous style that tells stories of life both imagined and real, often based in her Lake District backyard. Beautiful and brutal, yet refreshing view of the world.
January 21, 2023
The best things come in small packages and this is a delightfully sensual small book of poems.
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