Helen Mort Archive
Details
Type of record: Archive
Title: Helen Mort Archive
Classmark: MS 2079
Creator(s): Mort, Helen()
Date(s): 2007 - 2015
Size and medium: 2 boxes
Persistent link: https://explore.library.leeds.ac.uk/special-collections-explore/630516
Collection group(s): English Literature
Description
The Literary Archive of Helen Mort, documenting her work as a poet.
The collection consists of 16 notebooks and 19 typescript drafts and proofs for different pieces of work, and is arranged into two series: "Notebooks" and "Drafts & Proofs".
Mort labelled and dated the notebooks prior to their deposit at Leeds, where appropriate this information is relayed in the catalogue record.
Biography or history
Helen Mort was born in Sheffield, and studied at Christ's College, Cambridge (Social and Political Sciences, 2007). She completed her Doctorate at Sheffield University in 2014.
Mort is five-time winner of the Foyle Young Poets award, received an Eric Gregory Award from The Society of Authors in 2007, and won the Manchester Poetry Prize Young Writer Prize in 2008. In 2010, she became the youngest ever poet-in-residence at The Wordsworth Trust, Grasmere. She was the Derbyshire Poet Laureate from 2013 to 2015.
Helen Mort was Douglas Caster Creative Writing Fellow in the School of English at the University of Leeds from 2014 – 2016. She has worked at Manchester Metropolitan University as Lecturer in Creative Writing since September 2016.
As of 2017, Mort had published four collections of poetry. These include ‘a shape for every box’ (2007) and ‘A Pint for the Ghost’ (2010), published by tall-lighthouse. She has also published 'Division Street' (2013, winner of the Fenton Aldeburgh Prize, shortlisted for the Costa Prize and T.S. Eliot Prize) and 'No Map Could Show Them' (2016) with Chatto & Windus.
Provenance
The collection was donated to Special Collections in December 2016 by Mort.
Access and usage
Access
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