Helen Mort is a poet and novelist from Sheffield. Her poetry collection Division Street is published by Chatto & Windus and was shortlisted for the T.S. Eliot Prize and Costa Prize. Her second collection No Map Could Show Them explored the history of women’s mountaineering and started life in Banff.
Helen Mort is a poet and novelist from Sheffield. Her poetry collection Division Street is published by Chatto & Windus and was shortlisted for the T.S. Eliot Prize and Costa Prize. Her second collection No Map Could Show Them explored the history of women’s mountaineering and started life in Banff. Her latest, The Illustrated Woman, looks at the power of body modification and the role of the ‘tattooed lady’ in society. She has also published a novel Black Car Burning set in Sheffield. Her memoir A Line Above The Sky examines the relationship between mountains and motherhood. It won the 2022 Boardman Tasker Award for Mountain Literature. Much of her work is concerned with connections between landscape(s) and the body.
