Cyrus Larcombe Moore

Cyrus is a poet and journalist from the edge of Dartmoor. He has won Plymouth Festival Poetry Competition best young poet award (2015), Foyle’s Young Poet of the Year (2016), and won the Chimera Projects Writers in the Field of Digital, Web-Based, and New Media Art (2023). He has also been long-listed for the National Poetry Prize (2017) and the Classical Associations Poetry Award (2024). Cyrus received a bachelors in English Literature from the University of Manchester in 2023 and now studies MA Poetry at Queen’s University Belfast.

In 2021, Cyrus published his debut collection, UnPunched. They have also been published in SUNBOW, Renard Press, Haus-A-Rest, Gypsophila, by the Chimera Project, by the National Tremor Foundation and as part of The Ancient Mariner Big Read. In November 2023, they published with Pilot Press as part of Responses to Forbidden Colours, all proceeds for which go to Medical Aid for Palestine. In April 2023, Cyrus was published by Young Identity in their latest anthology An Island Under Water. A further significant publication is coming in 2024.

Cyrus performs his work often, having done so for the opening of the Wilfred Owen exhibition at Southampton’s John Hansard Gallery, to open a lecture at the Univeritsy of Oxford’s Bodleian Library, at dawn on Torquay’s Meadfoot beach for The Tale, at Tavistock Pride and at two Just Stop Oil fundraisers.

Their work as a journalist has led to documentary making, music reviewing, interviewing and news journalism. Cyrus has worked on a documentary about Notting Hill Carnival for Reel Knewz, a short documentary in Manchester of a protest against the conflict in Sudan for Volta, and a vox populi in Rochdale under the shadow of the 2024 general election. He currently writes reviews for Clunk magazine about new music and live shows in belfast. Previously, working with Europinion, they had produce articles, conducted interviews, and hosted workshops on journalism in Berlin and at the University of Bologna both for the European Youth Events.

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