{"title":"Books by Kim Moore","description":null,"products":[{"product_id":"9781781726877","title":"Are You Judging Me Yet?","description":"\u003cp\u003eThis collection of lyric essays by Forward prize-winning poet Kim Moore looks at the relationship between poetry and everyday sexism. Moore examines the dynamics of performing poetry as a female poet – drawing on her PhD research and experiences of writing and performing the poems in her second collection \u003cem\u003eAll The Men I Never Married\u003c\/em\u003e which won the Forward Prize for Best Collection 2022.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eEssays tackle subjects that range from heckling at poetry readings, problems with the male gaze and explorations of what the female gaze might look like in poetry and discussions about complicity, guilt and objectification, the slipperiness of the word sexism and whether poetry can be part of transformational change.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eMoore says, “I believe the time is right for a book like this to make an impact. As a female poet, I know there is a need for such a book to examine the intersection between writing, performing, feminism and sexism. I’ve had many conversations with other female poets who have confirmed my thinking – that female poets are navigating these things regularly, and yet nobody is really writing or talking about them.”\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eAt the end of each chapter, readers are encouraged to choose which section they read next, and to make their own connections between the essays. 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Following on are the terrifying episodes of violence or near violence – incidents detailing escaping rape at a party, a friend suffering the consequences of defending herself from unwanted attention in a nightclub, and ‘that being in public is a dangerous thing’.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eA near-innocuous episode on a fairground log flume sparks a narrative about power and consent, responsibility and opportunity: ‘to realise that someone can touch you\/without asking, without speaking, without knowing your name … You remember this lesson your whole life…’. There are incursions and interruptions of having to endure ‘mansplaining’ with an exploration of the complexities and complicity and the risk of confrontation. A number of poems re-enact the ‘easy misogyny’ of everyday life and observe it from an appalled distance.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Gardners","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":43204906385586,"sku":"9781781726419","price":9.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0612\/7193\/3106\/files\/9781781726419.jpg?v=1786025690"},{"product_id":"9781914914140","title":"What the Trumpet Taught Me","description":"\u003cp\u003eAward-winning poet Kim Moore studied music and was a trumpet teacher for several years. \u003ci\u003eWhat the Trumpet Taught Me\u003c\/i\u003e is a collection of vivid and immediate snapshots, from first lessons to music college, and from teaching the trumpet in schools and conducting a brass band, through to playing in working men's clubs in a ten-piece soul band.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eMeditative and often funny, these short prose pieces are always open to experience and clear-eyed about the vagaries of class-prejudice and the intricacies of gender in a predominantly male world.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe trumpet is the central character that we always return to as we are asked to consider the pivotal role of music in both an individual and social history.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Gardners","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":56309371273589,"sku":"9781914914140","price":8.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0612\/7193\/3106\/files\/9781914914140_f413faec-55e6-451a-abff-7203bee5d6f1.jpg?v=1788791016"},{"product_id":"9781472160485","title":"The House of Broken Things","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eShe's sleeping like a fairy tale girl, before the story\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e \u003ci\u003eteaches girls like her a lesson.\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e In \u003ci\u003eThe House of Broken Things\u003c\/i\u003e, motherhood is a spell, a terrible power, an intelligence, and transformative in all its complexity and ambivalence. These poems move like myth, invoking the ghosts of The House of Broken Things, where \u003ci\u003e'Broken mothers and damaged fathers \/ slept the sleep of those who do not \/ have time to think, and fractured children \/ dreamt the things you might expect \/ that fractured children dream.'\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e Moore's unflinching 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. There are truths our daughters must know, and there are burdens we must never pass on. To make them strong, must we also teach them to be afraid?\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e Calling the spirits of Anne Sexton, Emily Brontë, Adrienne Rich and others, she conjures an intimate atmosphere of haunted domesticity, the poems questioning and incantatory as a lullaby whispered to a cradled baby. Throughout, 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.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e \u003ci\u003eThe House of Broken Things\u003c\/i\u003e is a thrilling new work from one of our boldest and most exciting poets.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Gardners","offers":[{"title":"Hardback","offer_id":56368891560309,"sku":"9781472160485","price":14.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true},{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":57682829738357,"sku":"9781472160492","price":10.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0612\/7193\/3106\/files\/9781472160485_3b4ea385-92d2-4f61-a092-e796a5bbb583.jpg?v=1792511671"}],"url":"https:\/\/backstory.london\/collections\/author-kim-moore.oembed","provider":"Backstory","version":"1.0","type":"link"}