Division Street

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<p><b>*SHORTLISTED FOR THE T.S ELIOT PRIZE 2013*</b></p><p>A stone is lobbed in 84, hangs like a star over Orgreave. <i>Welcome to Sheffield</i>. Border-land, our town of miracles Scab</p> <p>From the clash between striking miners and police to the delicate conflicts in personal relationships, Helen Morts stunning debut is marked by distance and division. Named for a street in Sheffield, 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.</p>

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Helen Mort was born in Sheffield in 1985, and grew up in nearby Chesterfield. Five-times-winner of the Foyle Young Poets Award, she received an Eric Gregory Award in 2007 and won the Manchester Young Writer Prize in 2008. She has published two pamphlets with tall-lighthouse press,<i>the shape of every box</i>and<i>a pint for the ghost</i>(a Poetry Book Society Pamphlet Choice, 2010), and her poems have appeared in the<i>Spectator</i>,<i>Poetry Review</i>and<i>The Manhattan Review</i>. In 2010, she was Poet in Residence at the Wordsworth Trust, Grasmere. She lives in Derbyshire.

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