Helen Mort was born in Sheffield and lives in Cambridge. Her pamphlet, "The Shape of Every Box", was published by Tall-Lighthouse in 2007, the same year she received an Eric Gregory award from The Society of Authors.
A winner of the Foyle Young Poets of the Year Award on five occasions between 1997 and 2004, Helen has published work in The Rialto, Dreamcatcher and the Times Educational Supplement. She has performed her work at the Ledbury Festival, The Oxford Literary Festival and, more recently, in Buckingham Palace.
From her home in Cambridge, she organises a Poetry Society ´Stanza’ and a writing society for students. In her spare time she runs marathons and climbs in the Peak District. Over the years, Helen has scribbled poems furtively at work in pharmacies, pubs, nightclubs and now tries to jot them down in offices. A first collection is slowly materialising.
Links:
www.tall-lighthouse.co.uk
www.cb1poetry.org.uk
www.christs.cam.ac.uk/milton400
www.poetrysociety.org.uk/content/membership/stanzas
http://international.poetryinternationalweb.org
" Carnation"
They´ve built a Body Shop
in the old butcher´s district
caul and pig skin giving way
to coconut oil, jojoba,
as if the cloying air
should remind us there´s no such thing
as a simple kindness
like the spring carnations
fetched from earth to roadside
and, while you wait, beheaded
for your buttonhole.
