Join Dr Kim Moore for the launch of her third poetry collection The House of Broken Things (Corsair, 2026). In The House of Broken Things, motherhood is a spell, a terrible power, an intelligence, and transformative in all its complexity and ambivalence.

An atmosphere of haunted domesticity moves through these poems as they ask what we inherit and what we pass on to our children. Dr Kim Moore will be in conversation with Dr Malika Booker. There will be time for mingling and book sales afterwards.

Kim Moore is the author of three poetry collections, including All the Men I Never Married (Seren, 2021), which won the Forward Prize for Poetry in 2022. She has also published two works of non-fiction, What the Trumpet Taught Me (Smith/Doorstop, 2022) and Are You Judging Me Yet? Poetry and Everyday Sexism (Seren, 2023). The House of Broken Things is published by Corsair in 2026.

She is a Senior Lecturer in Creative Writing at Manchester Metropolitan University and Deputy Programme Leader of the MA and MFA in Creative Writing.

Malika Booker is a British poet of Guyanese and Grenadian parentage. Her collection Pepper Seed (Peepal Tree Press, 2013) was shortlisted for the Seamus Heaney Centre Prize and features on the A Level English Literature syllabus.

Malika Booker is the first woman to win the Forward Prize for Best Single Poem twice – in 2020 for The Little Miracles and in 2023 for Libation. She is a Senior Lecturer in Creative Writing at Manchester Metropolitan University.