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Moira Merryweather, Poet in Residence for Eastleigh Borough 2000, won the Writer’s Bureau 2004 Poetry Competition with her poem, Cocktails & Kinkajous. She was runner-up in the 2005 Bluechrome Poet of the Year Competition and is widely published both nationally and in Japan. Moira first collection, Stookey Blues & Fat Hen was published in 1998 and she was featured in Parents , an Enitharmon Anthology. Well-known for her waistcoats and dickie-bows she has performed from Edinburgh to Hastings and all places in between. She has had poems for children in Scholastic and Longman Anthologies and one of her short stories was short-listed for the Asham Award 2001. She carries a copy of Basho’s On Love and Barley wherever she goes and her bookshelves groan under the weight of signed collections, among them ones by Helen Dunmore, UA Fanthorpe, Thomas Lynch, Sharon Olds and Billy Collins. Moira says of her writing: ‘Having a week away every year on a writing course is the best way of stretching my perceptions of what poetry is. The two most accomplished and generous tutors I’ve ever had the good fortune to work with are Carole Satyamurti and Gregory Warren Wilson.’
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