Clare surfaced into the poetry scene in 2002 and became actively involved in Liverpool's Dead Good Poets Society. She soon became a popular local performer with her quirky poems on bored guide books, Darth Vader's sex appeal, pun-filled rants about traffic, Tarzan and how her mum is a Bond villain. More reflective poems ponder missed opportunities, holocaust survivors and the haunting Silence Museum.
In 2005 she won Liverpool's Second's Out Slam and was a finalist in the North West Slam Championship - part of Manchester Poetry Festival - and the Monsters of Poetry Inter-city slam in Belfast the same year. In 2007 she was pipped at the post in the Liverpool Slam by David Bateman - who won by just 0.2 of a point!
She has performed widely (from Birkenhead to Bolton, London to Las Vegas) and was selected for Radio 4's 'Ear Candy' project in 2004 and BBC Big Screen's 'Nothing Rhymes with Poets' in 2005.
Her poems have been published in MsLexia, Orbis, Iota, The Ugly Tree, Obsessed with Pipework, The Interpreter's House, Aberrant Dreams, Citizen 32 and In the Red amongst others and various anthologies.
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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
Poetry prizes won
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Liverpool Slam 2007 - 2nd Place
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Flicklit 2005 - WINNER
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Seconds' Out! Slam Liverpool 2005 - WINNER
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Spotlight Annual Slam 2004, Lancaster – 2nd Prize (and I would have got away with it but for those pesky kids.)
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Off the Wall (Exeter Festival of Comedy) Comic Verse Competition 2003 – 3rd Prize
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Wirral Ode Show Poet of the Year 2003 – WINNER
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Ragged Raven Poetry Competition 2003 – Runner up