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A Psalm for the Scaffolder

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A portrait of poet Kim Moore exploring the experiences that have formed her writing.

A portrait of Geoffrey Faber prize-winning poet Kim Moore exploring the experiences that have formed her tender, atmospheric poetry.

Geoffrey Faber prize-winning poet Kim Moore invites us into her life as a writer.  She focuses on her working class background and long held desire to follow her scaffolder-dad to work and become poet in residence among the scaffolders.

She shares her love of music and years spent working as a trumpet teacher, and how her tender, atmospheric poetry grapples with the transformations that affect both body and mind during a violent relationship.

This picture of Kim's life and the poetry it informs takes shape alongside a portrait painted by Claire Eastgate as part of her project, Painting the Poets, giving us a unique opportunity to listen in on the intimacies of the painter-sitter relationship.


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