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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.
The Lakes of Coma 
Short Days, Long Shadows 
Let's Celebrate! 
Being Human 
In Person 
Pretend You Don't Know Me 
My Family and Other Superheroes 
Collected Poems and Drawings of Stevie Smith 
Somewhere Else Entirely 
Life For Us 
New and Selected Poems, Volume Two 
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