Overview
Border-land,our town of miracles…’ – ‘Scab’From the clash between striking miners and police to the delicate conflicts in personal relationships, Helen Mort’s stunning debut is marked by distance and division.
*SHORTLISTED FOR THE T.S ELIOT PRIZE AND COSTA POETRY AWARD 2013*
''A stone is lobbed in ''84,
hangs like a star over Orgreave.
Welcome to Sheffield. Border-land,
our town of miracles...''
- ''Scab''
From the clash between striking miners and police to the delicate conflicts in personal relationships, Helen Mort''s 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.
- | Author: Helen Mort
- | Publisher: Vintage Publishing
- | Publication Date: Sep 05, 2013
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- | Binding: Paperback / softback
- | ISBN-13: 9780701186845
- | ISBN-10: 0701186844