Division Street

*WINNER OF THE FENTON ALDEBURGH FIRST COLLECTION PRIZE 2014*;*SHORTLISTED FOR THE T.S. ELIOT PRIZE 2013* ;*SHORTLISTED FOR THE COSTA POETRY AWARD 2013*;;The much-anticipated debut collection from award-winning poet and rising star, Helen Mort

*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…’

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• ‘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.