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Division Street

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*SHORTLISTED FOR THE T.S ELIOT PRIZE AND COSTA POETRY AWARD 2013*'A stone is lobbed in '84, hangs like a star over Orgreave.

Welcome to Sheffield. Border-land,our town of miracles...' - 'Scab'From the clash between striking miners and police to the delicate conflicts in personal relationships, Helen Mort's stunning debut is marked by distance and division.

Named for a street in Sheffield, this is a collection that cherishes specificity: the particularity of names; the reflections the world throws back at us; the precise moment of a realisation.

Distinctive and assured, these poems show us how, at the site of conflict, a moment of reconciliation can be born.

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Chatto & Windus
0701186844 / 9780701186845
Paperback / softback
821.92
05/09/2013
United Kingdom
English
57 pages
22 cm