Division Street

Helen Mort

• 05 september 2013
• 9781446483244

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*SHORTLISTED FOR THE T.S ELIOT PRIZE 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.