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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...
Drafts & Proofs
2007 - 2015
Typescript drafts and proofs for published (& unpublished) work. Drafts often include substantial annotations from poetry editors and notes written by Mort.
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 Includes unpublished material, and origins of 'The Rorschach Tests' (later published in Division Street) and early notes for a poem that would eventually become 'Rop...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: 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Mostly drafts of unpublished work.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 Includes notes for an unpublished radio play about camera obscura and some unpublished drafts.
Notebook: Cambridge
2007 - 2010
Notebook kept whilst living and working in Cambridge. Includes unpublished juvenilia and first drafts of poems later published in 'Division Street', incluuding 'The French for Death' and 'Carnation'.
Notebook: Cambridge
c.2008
Mostly unrelated notes. First drafts of 'Deer' (later published in 'Division Street') at back.
Notebook: Cambridge
c2008
Includes drafts of poems later published in 'A Pint for The Ghost', and drafts for 'Outtakes' later published in 'Division Street'. The notebook also includes notes from a tutorial with Don Paterson.
Notebook: Suffolk
2009
Notebook kept during Poetry Trust Advanced seminar with Peter Sansom and Michael Laskey in Aldeburgh, Suffolk. Includes workshop exercises, and early drafts for poems including 'The Girl Next Door', '...
Notebook: Wordsworth Trust Residency
2010 - 2011
Notebook kept during Wordsworth Trust residency, includes early drafts of poems later published in 'Division Street' ('Grasmere Oak' and 'Thread'), and substantial unpublished material.