Interview with Clare Shaw

Clare Shaw organised the Most Wuthering Heights Day Ever in Haworth 2025 and is part of the Boggarts, one of the eight groups that make up the coalition campaign group Stronger Together to Stop Calderdale Wind Farm. Clare is a widely published and award-winning poet with four collections published by Bloodaxe. Their most recent collection, 'Towards a General Theory of Love' was a Poetry Book Society Book of the Year in 2022. A passionate advocate for accessibility in poetry, and for poetry as a tool of personal and social change, Clare has founded or directed numerous poetry initiatives including the Kendal Poetry Festival, Wonky Animals, the Lost Things Project and more. They have held poetry residences in numerous settings, including festivals, conferences, hospitals, factories, landfill sites and bogs; and they collaborate with artists and academics in other disciplines, including photography, folk music, film, conservation and design.