Holly Moberley is a Member of the Sword Forge Collective 2022 – 2023.
BIOGRAPHY
Holly Moberley is a poet & Creative Writing MA graduate living in Somerset, UK. She is Bristol’s 2021 LYRA slam champion. Her work reads as feminist diary entries from your weird & chronically uncool cousin. Holly is currently co-writing a theatre show with Raina Greifer on pop culture, resuscitation and the ‘drowning girls’ motif.
NOTEWORTHY
- Shortlisted for the Bridport Prize in October 2021.
- Lyra Bristol Poetry Festival’s Slam Champion 2021.
- In February 2021, Holly’s poem ‘Ritual Gestures / The Art of Dressing Fleas’ was longlisted by Daljit Nagra for the Rialto’s Nature & Place 2021 Competition.
- Collaboration ‘5 Musicians, 1 Poet’ with Charlie + Jake.
- ‘Little Twist’ published in Butcher’s Dog Mag Issue 16 March 2022.
- ‘The Bones the Dogs Bury’ published in Hungry Ghost Mag, December 2021.
- ‘The Patron Saint of Optometry’ published in Sunday Mornings at the River, 2021 Spring Issue.
- ‘What the Thunder Said’ published in Sunday Mornings at the River, 2021 Spring Issue.
- ‘Black Hole Blues’ published in Sunday Mornings at the River, 2021 Spring Issue.
- A competing member of the Bath Spa University UniSlam team who were semi finalists in 2019.
- A competing member of the Bath Spa University UniSlam team who were semi finalists in 2020.
- Longlisted for Best Collaborative Work (for their participation in The CandleLit Sessions) in the Saboteur Awards 2022.
AN EXAMPLE
TESTIMONIALS
Holly’s language and imagery dance off the page, before taking a darker turn. It’s powerfully visceral and poetic writing.
NATHAN FILER
Brings a tenderness with each new poem she performs.
MALAIKA KEGODE
There’s a spark in these poems, a fierce kind of energy.
TIM LIARDET
BOOKINGS / CONTACT HOLLY
Twitter: https://twitter.com/bird_and_thebee
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Website: https://www.hollymoberleypoet.co.uk/