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The Illustrated Woman
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This collection will resonate with readers interested in contemporary poetry, feminist literature, and explorations of identity and the body. It is well-suited for those who appreciate emotionally potent and carefully crafted verse that engages with both personal and societal themes.
The Illustrated Woman is a tender and incisive collection about what it means to live in a female body - from the joys and struggles of new motherhood to the trauma of deepfakes --
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The brilliant new collection from T.S. Eliot Prize and Costa Award shortlisted poet Helen Mort
SHORTLISTED FOR THE FORWARD PRIZE FOR BEST COLLECTION
'A raw, tender, potent collection' - JESSICA ANDREWS
'Gorgeous poems - profound, exploratory, wild, playful - and completely now' - RUTH PADEL
The brilliant new collection from T.S. Eliot Prize and Costa Award shortlisted poet Helen Mort
Let me kneel before the sky and let me be humble, untidy, let me be decorated.
Here are women's bodies. Hungry adolescent bodies, fluctuating pregnant bodies, ailing aging bodies. Here are bodies as products to be digitised and consumed. Here is the body in nature, changing and growing stronger. Here are tattooed women through history, ink unfurling across their skin.
The Illustrated Woman is a tender and incisive collection about what it means to live in a female body - from the joys and struggles of new motherhood to the trauma of deepfakes. Amidst the landscapes of the Peak District and the glaciers of Greenland, Helen Mort's remarkable poems transfix the reader in a celebration of beauty and resilience.
'These are poems that will leave their indelible mark' - ANDREW MCMILLAN
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Mort's language is visceral, capturing the complexities of pain and experience with depth and grace, noted by the Guardian. Marvellous and tender poems shine with boldness throughout, praised by Kate Kellaway of the Observer. The Financial Times hails the collection as a wonderful, endlessly re-readable work. Daljit Nagra in the New Statesman describes it as celebrating the female body with mesmerising and thought-provoking poetry. The Times Literary Supplement highlights the title sequence as a complex, cohesive and dazzling exploration of writing inscribed on skin.
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ISBN: 9781784743222
Publisher: Vintage Publishing
Format: Paperback / softback
Date Published: 07 July 2022
Country: United Kingdom
Imprint: Chatto & Windus
Audience: General / adult, Tertiary education, Professional and scholarly
DIMENSIONS
Spine width: 7.0mm
Width: 135.0mm
Height: 216.0mm
Weight: 103g
Pages: 96
About the Author
Helen Mort has published three collections of poetry- Division Street (2013), winner of the Fenton Aldeburgh First Collection Prize, No Map Could Show Them (2016) and The Illustrated Woman (2022). Her poetry has been shortlisted for the Forward, T. S. Eliot and Costa Prizes. She has written a novel, Black Car Burning (2019) and a short story collection, Exire (2019). Her creative non-fiction includes A Line Above The Sky (2022), winner of the Boardman Tasker Award, and Ethel (2024). She is a Professor in Creative Writing at Manchester Metropolitan University and lives in Sheffield.
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