Division Street by Helen Mort Review

My Review of Division Street on MouthLondon.com



Division Street must be one of the most anticipated debut collections in some years. Helen Mort won the Foyle Young Poets award five times, received an Eric Gregory Award in 2007 and the Manchester Young Writers Prize in 2008. In 2010, Mort became the youngest ever Poet in Residence at the Wordsworth Trust, and her second pamphlet, a pint for the ghost (tall lighthouse), was a Poetry Book Society Choice. It is no surprise then, after such an early career in poetry, that Division Street is a mature debut rich... Read More

Red Doc> by Anne Carson Review

One of my favourite books this year. Read my review on MouthLondon.com Canadian writer Anne Carson has a back catalogue that marks her as one of the most distinctive voices working today. A prize-winning poet, essayist, translator and Professor of Classics, her 2010 collection Nox pushed the boundaries of poetry publication: an elegy and lamentation for her brother, Nox came encased in a box, printed on a single sheet folded like a concertina.

Carson operates in the realms of the fragment and, as Nox presented the story of... Read more