Helen Mort

Helen Mort is a poet born in Sheffield in 1985. She is a 5 times winner of the Foyle Young Poets award, she received an Eric Gregory Award from The Society of Authors in 2007 and won the Manchester Poetry Prize Young Writer Prize in 2008.[1] In 2010, she became the youngest ever poet in residence at The Wordsworth Trust, Grasmere. In the same year she was shortlisted for the Picador Prize and won the Norwich Café Writers' Poetry Competition with a poem called `Deer`. She was the Derbyshire Poet Laureate (2013-2015). In 2014, Helen Mort won the Fenton Aldeburgh First Collection Prize for "Division Street".

She is an alumnus of Christ's College, Cambridge, a constituent college of the University of Cambridge from which she graduated with a Double First in Social and Political Sciences in 2006. In 2014, she completed her Doctorate at Sheffield University with a Ph.D thesis in English/Neuroscience and her BlogSpot `Poetry on the Brain` was one of the Picador `Best Poetry Blogs` choices.

Her collection Division Street[2] is published by Chatto & Windus and was shortlisted for the Costa Book Awards and the T.S. Eliot Prize. In a national survey, it was chosen by sixth form groups and reading groups as their first choice collection. She has published two pamphlets with Tall Lighthouse press.[3] In 2014 she was named as one of the Next Generation poets by the Poetry Book Society. Currently Helen Mort is the Douglas Caster Creative Writing Fellow in the School of English at the University of Leeds. She has appeared a number of times on radio in such programmes as The Verb, Poetry Please and Woman's Hour. Individual poems have been published in the New Statesman, `Ex-Industrial (a trailer)`, and the Sunday Times, `Admit you feel like all the ice skates in Brazil`, as well as the magazines Poetry Review, Granta, The Rialto, Poetry London, The Manhattan Review and The North.

References

  1. ↑ "Contact Us | Manchester Poetry Prize 2008 | Manchester Metropolitan University (MMU)". Manchesterwritingcompetition.co.uk. Retrieved 2014-01-09.
  2. ↑ Suzi Feay (2013-09-22). "Poetry round-up: from the buzz around Helen Mort to Andrew Philip's 'sheer joy' in language - Reviews - Books". The Independent. Retrieved 2014-01-09.
  3. ↑ "the tall-lighthouse". the tall-lighthouse. Retrieved 2014-01-09.

External links

Official website

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