Are You Judging Me Yet? by Kim Moore
This 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 All The Men I Never Married which won the Forward Prize for Best Collection 2022. Essays 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. Moore 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.” At the end of each chapter, readers are encouraged to choose which section they read next, and to make their own connections between the essays. They will also find links between the topics and poems in All The Men I Never Married.
Kim Moore is an award-winning poet based in Cumbria. Her second collection ‘All The Men I Never Married’ won the Forward Prize for Best Collection 2022. She won the Poetry Business Pamphlet Competition in 2011 and the Geoffrey Faber Memorial Prize for her first collection ‘The Art of Falling’ (2015). She is a Lecturer in Creative Writing at Manchester Metropolitan University where she completed a doctorate in ‘Poetry and Everyday Sexism’.
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| ISBN 13 | 9781781726877 |
| ISBN 10 | 1781726876 |
| Title | Are You Judging Me Yet? |
| Author | Kim Moore |
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| Binding Type | Paperback |
| Publisher | Poetry Wales Press |
| Year published | 2023-03-08 |
| Number of pages | 160 |
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