Helen Mort

23/09/2013

Of Independent, Mind

I missed it until alerted through Facebook today but, yesterday, The North End of the Possible was reviewed in The Independent alongside Helen Mort’s debut collection, Jean Sprackland’s new book and books by Christopher Meredith and Tara Bergin plus a Salt pamphlet by Edward Mackay. The comment on my book is brief but favourable. I
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15/08/2011

06 | 16 : Andrew Philip

Last on the 06 | 16 front, here’s a poem from me, first published in 5PX2: The Melody at Night, With You Snow bound and determined to break out of the silence enforced by chronic fatigue Jarrett is at his piano again (the first time in let’s not contemplate how long for a man as
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02/08/2011

06 | 16 : Helen Mort

Helen Mort strikes an arborial note for the fifth poem from the 16 August Fruitmarket readers: Grasmere Oak Since there’s no blind, the tree outside’s a curtain on your room, the yolk-bright mornings breaking through. Last night, its shadow seemed the only thing between you and the leaking dark, the rain set loose and needling
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