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Helen Mort

@helenmort.bsky.social

Poet, author, Sheffield-er. Mountaineering literature specialist, running enthusiast, part time Professor of Creative Writing at Manchester Metropolitan University.

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Centre for Place Writing@centreplacewriting.bsky.social · last mo.

Live from Crossed Wires Festival, Sheffield, today - @helenmort.bsky.social on Radio 4's Woman's Hour. From the fairytale ‘wicked queen’ to the put-upon parent of the modern blended family. Helen talks to Anita Rani about writing her new collection, Stepmother. www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/...

Woman's Hour - Woman's Hour live from the Crossed Wires Podcast Festival in Sheffield - BBC Sounds

Anita Rani and Nuala McGovern from the Montgomery Theatre in front of a live audience.

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Helen Mort@helenmort.bsky.social · 2mo ago

🎉 🥳 Arvon PLUS in September with me, Declan Ryan and Sarah Howe. Two experienced editors and…er, me! Who fancies joining us? The course includes extra days to write at the end, unique to the ‘Arvon plus’ format. www.arvon.org/writing-cour...

Residential Arvon Plus: Poetry | Arvon

Sometimes finding inspiration isn’t the biggest challenge: it’s moulding your poems into the best shape, the best form, the best sequence or collection once you have the raw material. What makes a gre...

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Kerri Andrews@kerriandrewsuk.bsky.social · 3mo ago

Well, look what’s about to appear in the world! With work from the collectively and individually fab @katharinenorbury.bsky.social @anitasethi.bsky.social @pollyrowena.bsky.social Josie Giles @helenmort.bsky.social Kate Davis Beatrice Searle Anna Fleming Linda Cracknell and Gail Simmons

Dr Anita Sethi 🍃📚@anitasethi.bsky.social · 3mo ago

Happy to be a contributor to this new anthology published in August! “Women, Walking: Contemporary Voices on Nature & Belonging” Edited by Kerri Andrews @kerriandrewsuk.bsky.social In my contribution, I chronicle my night walk through Manchester. www.batsfordbooks.com/book/women-w...

Happy to be a contributor to this new anthology published in August! “Women, Walking: Contemporary Voices on Nature & Belonging” Edited by Kerri Andrews @kerriandrewsuk.bsky.social In my contribution, I chronicle my night walk through Manchester. https://www.batsfordbooks.com/book/women-walking/
Martyn Crucefix@mcrucefix.bsky.social · 10mo ago

RIP Tony Harrison – a piece on metre and voice in his poetry With the sad news of the passing of Tony Harrison, who as a working class poet had a great impact on me during my formative years of writing in the 1980s, I went back to a piece I was commissioned to write for an OUP collection of essays…

RIP Tony Harrison – a piece on metre and voice in his poetry

With the sad news of the passing of Tony Harrison, who as a working class poet had a great impact on me during my formative years of writing in the 1980s, I went back to a piece I was commissioned to write for an OUP collection of essays on his writing - both poetic and dramatic - in 1997. The book, …

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Gregory Norminton@gregorynorminton.bsky.social · 10mo ago

I was a fourteen year-old public schoolboy when our English teacher introduced us to 'The School of Eloquence' sequence. It blew the cobwebs off poetry for us, broadening its range and power and shocking our comfortable political assumptions. There was no one like him. RIP Tony Harrison

Book Ends - Poetry Archive

Baked the day she suddenly dropped dead we chew it slowly that last apple pie. Shocked into sleeplessness you’re scared of bed. We never could talk much, and now don’t try. You’re like book ends, the ...

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