Helen Mort
@helenmort.bsky.social
Poet, author, Sheffield-er. Mountaineering literature specialist, running enthusiast, part time Professor of Creative Writing at Manchester Metropolitan University.
A joy to interview Martin Parr yesterday at @mcrlitfest.bsky.social
October 20, 2025 at 3:52 PM
A joy to interview Martin Parr yesterday at @mcrlitfest.bsky.social
Annie Dillard, Melissa Febos, Audre Lorde, poetry & weasels. helenmort.substack.com/p/ecstatic-d...
August 8, 2025 at 3:14 PM
Annie Dillard, Melissa Febos, Audre Lorde, poetry & weasels. helenmort.substack.com/p/ecstatic-d...
Tonight - got your tickets yet? events.bl.uk/events/write...
June 26, 2025 at 7:52 AM
Tonight - got your tickets yet? events.bl.uk/events/write...
Love this pic of a wonderful night of poetry in Berlin on Sunday with fellow poets from around the world. Photo by Natalia Reich and event organised by Haus fur Poesie. Thank you so much, and special thanks to Jan Wagner for translating my work. ❤️
June 17, 2025 at 4:28 PM
Love this pic of a wonderful night of poetry in Berlin on Sunday with fellow poets from around the world. Photo by Natalia Reich and event organised by Haus fur Poesie. Thank you so much, and special thanks to Jan Wagner for translating my work. ❤️
Got your tickets yet for the next @writeback.bsky.social on June 26th at @britishlibrary.bsky.social ? Writers talk about themes and issues that preoccupy, inform, haunt & change their creative work. It’s a unique format from the ace brains of @aanaxagorou.bsky.social and Tom Macandrew and it WORKS.
June 17, 2025 at 8:22 AM
Got your tickets yet for the next @writeback.bsky.social on June 26th at @britishlibrary.bsky.social ? Writers talk about themes and issues that preoccupy, inform, haunt & change their creative work. It’s a unique format from the ace brains of @aanaxagorou.bsky.social and Tom Macandrew and it WORKS.
Happy publication day to this startling, urgent new book from the one and only Laura Bates. I will be interviewing Laura tonight at Festival of Debate and there are still a few tix left: festivalofdebate.com/2025/laura-b...
May 16, 2025 at 8:47 AM
Happy publication day to this startling, urgent new book from the one and only Laura Bates. I will be interviewing Laura tonight at Festival of Debate and there are still a few tix left: festivalofdebate.com/2025/laura-b...
It’s Tuesday so OBVIOUSLY you need a picture of my French Bulldog Denver getting cosy and warm after her bath.
May 13, 2025 at 8:28 AM
It’s Tuesday so OBVIOUSLY you need a picture of my French Bulldog Denver getting cosy and warm after her bath.
On May 9th I will be in conversation with @robgmacfarlane.bsky.social about his new book Is A River Alive? @mcrlitfest.bsky.social manchesterliteraturefestival.co.uk/events/rober...
May 3, 2025 at 12:53 PM
On May 9th I will be in conversation with @robgmacfarlane.bsky.social about his new book Is A River Alive? @mcrlitfest.bsky.social manchesterliteraturefestival.co.uk/events/rober...
Scientists and geographers at @arcticstationucph.bsky.social have been filling my notebook with their thoughts on the seasons!
May 3, 2025 at 12:51 PM
Scientists and geographers at @arcticstationucph.bsky.social have been filling my notebook with their thoughts on the seasons!
On the return from a research trip to Disko Bay, Greenland with colleagues from quaternary science Dr Kathryn Adamson & @iestynbarr.bsky.social working with @kirstenseesternc.bsky.social at @arcticstationucph.bsky.social - so much to process from another humbling encounter with ice and place.
May 3, 2025 at 12:49 PM
On the return from a research trip to Disko Bay, Greenland with colleagues from quaternary science Dr Kathryn Adamson & @iestynbarr.bsky.social working with @kirstenseesternc.bsky.social at @arcticstationucph.bsky.social - so much to process from another humbling encounter with ice and place.
I’m hosting a series of environment-themed poetry events at Manchester Poetry Library this Spring. Poets discussing place, creatures, ecological peril and how to engage with these themes (+ more). Supported by the Poetry Research Group & @centreplacewriting.bsky.social www.mmu.ac.uk/poetry-libra...
March 10, 2025 at 8:16 PM
I’m hosting a series of environment-themed poetry events at Manchester Poetry Library this Spring. Poets discussing place, creatures, ecological peril and how to engage with these themes (+ more). Supported by the Poetry Research Group & @centreplacewriting.bsky.social www.mmu.ac.uk/poetry-libra...
Get your tickets for this fab event at the British Library on March 18th! www.seetickets.com/event/writeb...
March 10, 2025 at 8:10 PM
Get your tickets for this fab event at the British Library on March 18th! www.seetickets.com/event/writeb...
Ay up. I’m new here and these are some of my favourite silver birch trees at Surprise View. Trees of good bark. Trees that let the sky through. I like to write about such wild-feeling places and the people who value them (my last book was a biog of environmental campaigner Ethel Haythornthwaite).
November 28, 2024 at 4:00 PM
Ay up. I’m new here and these are some of my favourite silver birch trees at Surprise View. Trees of good bark. Trees that let the sky through. I like to write about such wild-feeling places and the people who value them (my last book was a biog of environmental campaigner Ethel Haythornthwaite).