Helen Mort's full-length collection, Division Street, was published earlier this month by Chatto. The book is a Poetry Book Society Recommendation and is the collection we're reading for the October Poetry Cafe, which will be on Wednesday 2nd October from 12pm, at Bank Street Arts.
Helen was born in Sheffield and grew up in Chesterfield. She's won the Foyle Young Poets award five times, an Eric Gregory, and the Manchester Young Writer Prize in 2008. She's had two pamphlets published with Tall Lighthouse, and was poet in residence at the Wordsworth Trust.
Here's a link to her website, and to her blog, which relates to her PhD research at University of Sheffield about metaphor, poetry and neuroscience.
Here's a link to some of Helen's poems online, and there's an interview in The Oxonian Review, here.
The book is in stock at Rhyme & Reason, which is opposite Endcliffe Park.
We'll talk about the book from 12:20, and then start workshopping each other's poems around 1pm. Bring copies.
