Explore the ordinary extraordinary, poetry and everyday beauty, with renowned poet and novelist Helen Mort. We will look at how writers make remarkable things seem perfectly plausible and how poetry can show us the magic in seemingly unremarkable things.

Helen Mort is a poet and novelist from Sheffield, United Kingdom. Her poetry collection Division Street is published by Chatto & Windus and was shortlisted for the T.S. Eliot Prize and Costa Prize.  Her second collection No Map Could Show Them explored the history of women’s mountaineering and started life in Banff!. Her latest, The Illustrated Woman (2022) looks at the power of body modification and the role of the ‘tattooed lady’ in society. She has also published a novel called Black Car Burning (2019) set in Sheffield and her memoir A Line Above The Sky (Ebury, 2022) examines the relationship between mountains and motherhood. Much of her work is concerned with connections between landscape(s) and the body. She’s a Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature and teaches at Manchester Metropolitan University. She also likes climbing and running up hills!

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