Cyrus Larcombe Moore

Cyrus is a poet and journalist from the edge of Dartmoor. His poetry has been published by the Seamus Heaney Centre, Stand Magazine, Renard Press, The National Tremor Foundation, and elsewhere.

In November 2023, he was published in Pilot Press’ Responses to Forbidden Colours anthology, all proceeds for which go to Medical Aid for Palestine. In April 2023, Cyrus was published by Young Identity An Island Under Water anthology. A further significant anthology publication is coming in 2025.

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.

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 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 and conducts interviews for Clunk magazine about new music and live shows in Belfast. Previously, working with Europinion, they published articles, conducted interviews, and hosted workshops on combating misinformation and journalistic practice in Berlin and at the University of Bologna for the European Youth Events.

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