Division Street by Helen Mort carcanet She believes that poetry records

She believes that poetry records the experience of one’s time and insists that it is ‘not a series of events

Don Paterson

Changeling witnesses Clare Pollard brilliantly re-rub some old English folktales and transcribe them to our own troubled times

these poems show us how

Division Street by Helen Mort carcanet She believes that poetry recordsFrom the clash between striking miners and police to the delicate conflicts in personal relationships, Helen Morts 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