Poetry @ The Print Room -- Helen Mort

Five-times-winner of the Foyle Young Poets Award, Helen Mort received an Eric Gregory Award in 2007 and won the Ancherster Young Writer Prize in 2008. In 2010, she was poet in Residence at the Wordsworth Trust, Grasmere.

"Helen Mort is among the brightest stars in the sparkling new constellation of young British poets" (Carol Ann Duffy)

For Poetry @ The Print Room, Helen will be reading from her eagerly anticipated first collection Division Street.

 ‘this is a collection that cherishes specificity: the particularity of names; the reflections the world throws back at us; the precise moment of a realisation. Distinctive and assured, these poems show us how, at the site of conflict, a moment of reconciliation can be born.’

"Gritty, witty, stylish and totally memorable. Division Street is a book which has something important to say, addressing a wide range of topics with novelty and intelligence." (John Glenday)