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*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.
Poems of Childhood 
Under the Rock 
Soemps 
Historical Odes and Other Poems 
River Lane 
Mustard, Custard, Grumble Belly and Gravy 
States of Happiness 
The World Record 
The Arches 
A Children's Treasury of Milligan 
Prague With Fingers of Rain 
How To Write Poems 
Old Possum's Book of Practical Cats 
Signs Like This 
Red Devon