Kim Moore on Private Passions with Michael Berkeley 24th June 2018
Kim Moore won the prestigious Geoffrey Faber Memorial Prize this year for her first poetry collection, "The Art of Falling", and is still only in her thirties. The judges described her prize-winning collection as "thrilling: language at its most irresistible and essential".
But however thrilling, poets need to make a living, and Kim Moore's day job has been as a trumpet teacher, in Cumbria where she lives. She's also conducted brass bands.
In Private Passions, Kim Moore explores her musical passion for brass, from Handel's Messiah through to Britten's Serenade for Tenor, Horn and Strings, taking in the Grimethorpe Colliery Band on the way. She tells Michael Berkeley how she started writing, and about her sequence of poems exploring a dark and abusive relationship. She reflects too on the influence of her father's job as a scaffolder, and how a fear of falling and images of falling haunt her work. And there are some true confessions about what it's like to play the trumpet in a bandstand with one dog and the drunk who slept there the night before.
Produced by Elizabeth Burke
A Loftus production for BBC Radio 3.
-
LIVE
The Podcast of the Lotus Eaters
2 hours agoThe Podcast of the Lotus Eaters #925
3,742 watching -
23:19
Scammer Payback
19 hours agoWe Created the First Ever 𝗔𝗡𝗧𝗜-𝗦𝗖𝗔𝗠 Call Center
56K98 -
2:09:39
Laura Loomer
9 hours agoEP50: MELTDOWN: Trump Causes Libertarian Party to IMPLODE!
9.01K24 -
15:17
Producer Michael
20 hours agoHOW IS THIS EVEN POSSIBLE? ILLUSIONS IN LAS VEGAS
3331 -
9:54
ErmzPlays
19 hours agoHow The Woke Virus Infested Modern Gaming
7524 -
23:52
Landed Fishing
1 day agoOffshore Fishing Yellowtail Snapper + African Pompano (Bucket List) Tampa Florida Deep Sea Fishing
1.21K2 -
19:13
Proof Bread
23 hours agoNew Sourdough Bread Mixing After BIG Change
1.29K -
3:33
DrJockers
20 hours agoThe Shocking Truth About Pork
1.54K6 -
15:54
JoBlo Originals
17 hours agoWhat Happened to Unsolved Mysteries (1987-1999)?
6.19K23 -
10:54
Fascinating Horror
1 day agoThe Balvano Train Disaster | Fascinating Horror
12.6K7