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Helen Mort Archive
Mort, Helen
2007 - 2015
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 tw...
Notebooks
2007 - 2015
Notebooks kept by Mort, often used to draft poetry, but sometimes containing general notes and observations. Notebooks have been labelled with a date and brief description by Mort. This information ha...
Notebook: Cambridge
c2007 - 2008
Notebook kept whilst in Cambridge. Includes unpublished material, and origins of 'The Rorschach Tests' (later published in Division Street) and early notes for a poem that would eventually become 'Rop...
Notebook: Wordsworth Trust Residency
2010 - 2011
Notebook kept during residency at the Wordsworth Trust. Includes early drafts of poems later published in 'Division Street', including 'The Dogs', 'Scab' and 'Thinspiration Shots'.
Notebook: post-Wordsworth Trust Residency
c2011
Mostly unpublished material, includes first draft of 'Lowedges' (later published in 'Division Street').
Notebook: various drafts
2011 - 2013
Draft poems. Includes end of 'Division Street' (early drafts of 'Oldhams Burning Sands') and poems which would eventually be published in 'No Map Could Show Them'.
Notebook: Hathersage
2013
Notebook kept whilst living in Hathersage. Includes early drafts of poems from 'No Map Could Show Them' including the Everest sequence.
Notebook: Leeds Fellowship
2013 - 2015
Notebook kept during Douglas Caster Cultural Fellowship at the University of Leeds. Mostly unpublished notes.
Notebook: Leeds Fellowship
2013 - 2015
Notebook kept during Douglas Caster Cultural Fellowship at the University of Leeds. Includes early drafts for poems later published in 'No Map Could Show Them', including 'Big Lil' sequence.
Notebook: Leeds Fellowship
2013 - 2015
Notebook kept during Douglas Caster Cultural Fellowship at the University of Leeds. Various notes and drafts.
Notebook: various drafts
c2007 - 2008
Mostly drafts of unpublished work. Includes early draft of 'The Year of the Ostrich'.
Notebook: Cambridge
2007 - 2009
Notebook kept whilst living and working in Cambridge. Includes notes for an unpublished radio play about camera obscura and some unpublished drafts.