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clare kirwan                                                   

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Clare Kirwan is a quirky performance poet, comedian and writer based in Wirral and active in Liverpool's Dead Good Poets Society. Winner of the 2005 Liverpool Slam, she most recently won second place in the 19th Feile Filiochta International Poetry Competition.

Clare’s poetry glides effortlessly through the witty and profound. Her audiences love her  flirting and marrying of language. A great live poet.  [Chloe Poems]

 A true original, witty and inventive in language, ideas, imagery - and even rhyme   [Carole Baldock, Orbis]

Welcome to a world where silence speaks many languages,  bones grow in gardens, and the birdsong is only in your head. A world where all things are made of glass but breakages need not be paid for, where moments are crystallized: the lollipop man murdered, the iron statue running for it, and your mum planning world domination.

Next gigs:

Sunday 11th May  Peripatetic poet, Secret Gardens of Oxton (event is 10am to 5pm but catch 'Cafe Society' performers out and about from 2pm)

Tuesday 20th May Launch of In the Red magazine, The Magnet, Hardman St  7.30pm

Saturday 31st May Funny Women Competition - Liverpool heat, Bluecoat Arts Centre

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Last updated: 6th May  2008