Clare Kirwan
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Clare Kirwan is a British performance poet and writer born in Wirral, Merseyside on 30 April 1964.
Having written poems for 20 years, Clare became active in the Liverpool's poetry scene in 2002 as part of the 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 and Tarzan and the peculiar hell that is a B&Q Bank Holiday. Other poems are more reflective about missed opportunities, holocaust survivors and the haunting Silence Museum.
Having won Wirral Ode Show Poet of the Year 2003, she went on to win prizes in Off the Wall (Exeter Festival of Comedy) Comic Verse Competition 2003, Ragged Raven Poetry Competition 2003, the Lancaster Spotlight Annual Slam 2004 and Flicklit 2005.
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.
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, Citizen 32 Obsessed with Pipework, The Interpreter's House, Aberrant Dreams, In the Red + various anthologies.
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