I’m hosting this in conversation event with brilliant Mai Serhan tomorrow at 11am, registration via the link: rise.mmu.ac.uk/activity/i-c...
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I’m hosting this in conversation event with brilliant Mai Serhan tomorrow at 11am, registration via the link: rise.mmu.ac.uk/activity/i-c...
It was wonderful to do this ‘listening chair’ for Elizabeth Alker recently and talk about John Grant but - more importantly - this episode of Unclassified features musical gorgeousness from Sheffield…. www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/...
I’m doing some short & sweet online poetry workshops over the coming weeks, first ones are this Friday. Would be lovely to have your company if anyone would like to join! www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/poems-that...
Online poetry workshops with Helen Mort? Yes please!
Poems that make things happen. One off or book the whole series - 1 hour sessions of creativity.
@helenmort.bsky.social
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In a masterclass on Sunday, someone asked if I would consider sharing my drafting process. So I had a go! open.substack.com/pub/helenmor...
It's impossible to capture all the events of 2025 from CPW in one image, but here's a snap shot of some of the brilliant things our members have been involved with this year. Including @helenmort.bsky.social Andrew Michael Hurley, Nikolai Duffy, Rachel Lichtenstein & Jean Sprackland.
My Christmas jumper is ON. My silly festive writing prompt is free for all to access on Substack! open.substack.com/pub/helenmor...
A joy to interview Martin Parr yesterday at @mcrlitfest.bsky.social
Tomorrow night in Sheffield I’ll be reading a new commissioned poem for Jane Austen (and women who write!). Please join us: offtheshelf.org.uk/events/a-hou...
RIP Tony Harrison – a piece on metre and voice in his poetry
With the sad news of the passing of Tony Harrison, who as a working class poet had a great impact on me during my formative years of writing in the 1980s, I went back to a piece I was commissioned to write for an OUP collection of essays…
I was a fourteen year-old public schoolboy when our English teacher introduced us to 'The School of Eloquence' sequence. It blew the cobwebs off poetry for us, broadening its range and power and shocking our comfortable political assumptions. There was no one like him.
RIP Tony Harrison
On turning 40, the influence of Tony Harrison and some stuff about leaves. Oh, and a poem from my next collection. open.substack.com/pub/helenmor...
can we not all have composter syndrome instead. a desire to mulch.
On Thursday @britishlibrary.bsky.social @helenmort.bsky.social hosts @writeback.bsky.social with Eliza Clark, whose horror-adjacent novels include the pitch black comedy sensation Boy Parts; renowned author and educator Musa Okwonga, and celebrated novelist Olivia Sudjic
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Tomorrow - a free Centre for Place Writing pop up event at Manchester Met. Please come and join us! www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/centre-for...
Thank you very much indeed Adam!
Man holding a copy of ‘Dad vs. Dad’ by Helen Mort
‘so we have a man… protect / him against / life his / life’
@helenmort.bsky.social’s ‘Dad vs. Dad’ is a work slim enough to finish over a lunch-break, but like shards of glass (indeed, like history) these poems and collages will stick deep in you. @vervepoetrypress.bsky.social have given us magic.
Annie Dillard, Melissa Febos, Audre Lorde, poetry & weasels. helenmort.substack.com/p/ecstatic-d...
Been enjoying an early read of this brilliant book published by @andotherstories.bsky.social - www.andotherstories.org/dreaming-of-...
What have John Berger, Erving Goffman, an invented actor, an imaginary Fringe show and my ridiculous glasses got in common? Only one way to find out. 😂
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Herons. 🐦 (why is there no heron emoji?!)…I make most of my Substack free but regularly post unpublished, poems stories and other things-with-wings for paid subscribers. Thank you to anyone who reads on either plan for the support! open.substack.com/pub/helenmor...
On wrongness, wrong-as-a-place, poetry and wrong, Bill Matthews and tattoos. helenmort.substack.com/p/into-the-t...
On wrongness and wrong-as-a-place and Bill Matthews and Charles Simic and tattoos; helenmort.substack.com/p/into-the-t...
Tonight - got your tickets yet? events.bl.uk/events/write...
Thoughts at the end of a @centreplacewriting.bsky.social poetry series on ‘eco-poetry’. Wait, who made that paw print?! 🐻 🐾
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Fairytales, time, trails of breadcrumbs and pebbles. open.substack.com/pub/helenmor...
This Thursday, 6.30pm at Manchester Poetry Library, a Poetry Research Group and Centre for Place Writing event. www.mmu.ac.uk/poetry-libra...
Love this pic of a wonderful night of poetry in Berlin on Sunday with fellow poets from around the world. Photo by Natalia Reich and event organised by Haus fur Poesie. Thank you so much, and special thanks to Jan Wagner for translating my work. ❤️
