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(0)Helen Mort
Author
Publisher
Chatto & Windus
Pub. Date
2013
Language
English
Description
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 creation and reconciliation can be born.
Author
Series
Publisher
Chatto & Windus
Pub. Date
2016
Language
English
Description
Helen Mort's riveting second collection is inspired by her two greatest passions: mountaineering and running. Here are odes to the young Victorian women who tramped the Swiss Alps peaks in their skirts and petticoats, as well as tributes to the mountains that inspired them, and at the heart of the collection lies a breathtaking sequence 'Black Rocks', dedicated to Alison Hargreaves, the British climber who died on K2.