The Art of Falling

Kim Moore’s lively debut, sets out her stall firmly in the North. The title poem riffs on the many sorts of falling “so close to falling or to falter or to fill”

There is a visit to a spiritualist,a train trip from Barrow to Sheffield and a Tuesday at Wetherspoons. The author’s experience as a peripatetic brass teacher sparks several poems.’How I Abandoned My body To His Keeping’ is the story of a relationship marked by coercion and violence.A final section includes a selection of character portraits including John Lennon and the violinist on the Titanic