An active member of Liverpool's Dead Good Poets Society, Clare is a popular performer with her quirky poems on bored guide books, Darth Vader's sex appeal, and road rage. More reflective poems ponder missed opportunities, holocaust survivors and the haunting Silence Museum.
Most recently she came second in the Feile Filiochta International Poetry Competition 2007.
In 2005 she won Liverpool's Second's Out Slam, was a finalist in the North West Slam Championship and the Monsters of Poetry Inter-city slam in Belfast. In 2007 she was pipped at the post in the Liverpool Slam by David Bateman and came 4th this year after an admittedly lack-lustre performance
She has performed widely (from Birkenhead to Bolton, London to Las Vegas), including Radio 4's 'Ear Candy' project and BBC Big Screen's 'Nothing Rhymes with Poets.'
Her poems have been published in MsLexia, Orbis, Iota, The Ugly Tree, Strong Verse, Obsessed with Pipework, The Interpreter's House, Aberrant Dreams, Citizen 32 and In the Red amongst others and in various anthologies.
In 2005 her short story 'A Familiar Face' won Dark Tales Competition and she has also had stories published in Nerve, Electric Spec, Espresso Fiction, Electricspec, Vestal Review and Bloody Books' anthology Read by Dawn II.
Her comedy material has been used on BBC radio's Parsons and Naylor and she performed her stand-up comedy debut in 2007 at Liverpool's Royal Court theatre.
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Available for bookings at any kind of event, material can be tailored for event or audience.
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Experienced compere
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Keen to work in collaboration with other poets and artists
2008
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4th place Liverpool Slam
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Wirral BookFest
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Mersey Care NHS Trust Poetry Experience Day
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Liverpool Poetry Cafe
2007
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Riders at Bolton Socialist Club
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Funny Business at the Liverpool Comedy Trust
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Seconds Out Slam - Northwest heat, BBC Radio 4 slam
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2nd place Liverpool Slam (BBC Radio 4 slam)
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The Bards of New Brighton
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Zest at Alexander's Jazz Bar, Chester
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Dead Good Poets Society, Everyman, Liverpool
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Write Out Loud, Bolton Octagon
2006
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Heartbeats, View Two, Liverpool
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'Originals' Hoylake
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Dead Good Poets Society, Everyman, Liverpool
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Shortlisted for BBC Big Screen
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Launch of 'In The Red' 2006
2005
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Radio Merseyside 'Poet of the Week,'
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Monsters of Poetry Inter-City Slam, Belfast
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JawJam ( DGPS with Common Ground sign dance)
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Farago Slam - RADA Foyer Bar
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Dead Good Poets Society Night at the Cavern
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North West Slam Championship Final (finalist)
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BBC Big Screen Liverpool 'Nothing Rhymes with Poets'
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WINNER Seconds Out! Slam, Liverpool
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Big Words in a Little Theatre, Formby
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Poetry Pool 2 - book launch, Liverpool JMU
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Stamps Bistro, Formby (slam runner-up)
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'Second Light' network prize-giving, London
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Dead Good Poets Society, Everyman, Liverpool
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First Thursday Poetry, Linghams, Heswall
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The Zanzibar, Liverpool
2004
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'Comedy Mix,' Dead Good Poets Society, Everyman, Liverpool
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'Spotlight,' Yorkshire House, Lancaster
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Stamps Café, Crosby
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Write Out Loud, Octagon Theatre, Bolton
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Babycham Funny Women Competition 2004, Slaughterhouse, Liverpool
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Tea Leaf and Coffee Bean, Las Vegas
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BBC Radio 4's Ear Candy, The Bluecoat, Liverpool
2003
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Wirral Ode Show Poet of the Year (slam winner)
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Off the Wall, Exeter & East Devon Festival of Comedy 2003
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Sefton Park Palm House
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Oxford Poetry Weekend 2003
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WEA 100 Years, Liverpool’s Unity Theatre
Poetry prizes won
Liverpool Slam 2008 - 4th place
Feile Filiochta International Poetry Competition 2007- 2nd Place
Southport Writers Circle Poetry Competition 2007 - 2nd Place
Liverpool Slam 2007 - 2nd Place
Flicklit 2005 - WINNER
Liverpool Slam 2005 - WINNER
Spotlight Annual Slam 2004, Lancaster – 2nd Prize (and I would have got away with it but for those pesky kids.)
Off the Wall (Exeter Festival of Comedy) Comic Verse Competition 2003 – 3rd Prize
Wirral Ode Show Poet of the Year 2003 – WINNER
Ragged Raven Poetry Competition 2003 – Runner up