Guest Feature – Lawrence Moore

I’m delighted to introduce poet, Lawrence Moore, to Patricia’s Pen. Lawrence is sharing his poetry journey so without further ado, it’s over to him.

My Poetry Journey

Lawrence Moore

Hi, I’m Lawrence Moore and I’ve been writing poetry most of my life, but in 2018, I became more committed to the art of poeming, and have been rewarded with a series of friendships and adventures ever since. Perhaps my most distinctive creative trait is my love for musicality and flow. Meaning and self-expression are very important to me, but I often let the shaping of a poem be led by the sounds and rhythms that bring me most pleasure.

I often make use of crypticness and phrases with multiple interpretations, partly because it enables me to say things I might not otherwise be foolish enough to say, but also because I quite enjoy being mysterious. That said, I value candour highly and consider my poems to be rather accessible as poetry goes, because that’s what appeals to me as a reader.

In early 2022, I released my first chapbook Aerial Sweetshop with Alien Buddha Press. Dedicated to my late Dad, a passionate model aircraft enthusiast, it featured many flight themed poems. Moreover, I used the metaphor of flying to thread together various other subjects I wished to visit, a prevalent one of which was love. Along with hope, love is a matter never too far from my creative mind.

I began work on my next ‘big project’ in a similar way, this time weaving poems connected by adventure, misadventure, the natural world and the fantastical. Appropriately enough, they led me to The Breadcrumb Trail, my first full length collection, produced by illustrator Jane Cornwell via Jane’s Studio Press.

This partnership has been immensely beneficial, with Jane immediately getting on my wavelength and weaving beautiful threads of her own to reinforce mine. The result is something more cohesive, and also more special to me, than I ever could have achieved on my own.

As I have said, it is a book of adventure and misadventure, of compliments and of juxtapositions, so I shall leave you with the following two poems, which I think give a hint of what lies in store, should you decide to wander the trail.

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About Lawrence Moore

Lawrence Moore has lived in the coastal city of Portsmouth, England since birth and shares a house overlooking Kingston Cemetery with his husband Matthew and their nine mostly well behaved cats. A firm believer in environmentalism and animal welfare, he spent many teenage days involved in protesting and direct action. His poems have appeared in publications including Sarasvati, Feral, Fahmidan Journal, Green Ink Poetry, Dreich and The Madrigal. He previously released a debut chapbook, Aerial Sweetshop, with Alien Buddha Press in January 2022.