Visiting Poet – Helen Mort
Helen Mort has achieved success at a relatively early stage in her career. She has won many prizes, including the Foyle Young Poets award and Manchester Young Writer Prize, while her first poetry collection Divison Street (2013) was shortlisted for the T.S. Elliot and Costa prizes. She has also been the youngest ever poet-in-residence at Dove Cottage (William Wordsworth’s actual house) for Wordsworth Trust, in England’s beautiful Lake District. She has also been the Poet Laureate for Derbyshire, and has been called one […]