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was born and educated in Scotland. She has worked in most areas of primary education, as teacher, head teacher and college lecturer. She taught creative writing part-time in the University of Glamorgan. Moira has written a number of books on the creative arts for Belair, the most popular being Language in Colour and Paint a Poem. She has many poetry collections to her name, among them, Geese and Daughters, (IDP 2018), Imagine a Kiss, (Dempsey & Windle 2020), Looking through Water, (Poetry Space 2020) and Moonfall (2021). 'This Year, Next Year' is a book of poetry about love and loss... (it) turned my heart inside out.' - Maureen Lipman (The Guardian) 'Agile in their shifting forms and rhythms, the poems have an unsentimental tenderness always underpinned by the passage of time.' - Philip Gross 'Moira's poems offer a delightful variety of style and content, from small incidents to sexy reminiscences, thoughtful and sensitive considerations and simply fun.' - Tessa Geoghegan 'Breakfast with Swallows is Moira Andrew at her sensual best - nature, music,family, sex; all observed with the sharp eye and ready wit that Moira has in dollops.' - Dawn Bauling