interview of favourite poet
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my favourite poet is subhadra kumari chuan
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As a young poet who is tentatively starting to get my work out there, I was delighted when Sheffield born poet, Helen Mort, agreed to do an interview with me recently for my Arts Award in Writing. I love Helen’s work, and I’m also inspired by how she has accomplished so much with it so young.
Helen started taking her writing seriously in her early teens winning a Foyle Young Poets award a staggering 5 times. She has published two collections with Chatto & Windus and four pamphlets. Amongst her various accolades, Helen won an Eric Gregory Award and the Manchester Young Writer Prize in 2008. She was also the youngest ever poet in residence at The Wordsworth Trust, in 2010, and the 5th Derbyshire Poet Laureate in 2013. All this and she’s currently writing a novel and a play, and she’s not even 30!
Here, Helen talks about her journey as a writer from a young age and her latest collection No Map Could Show Us. She also offers some great insights and tips into writing and editing poetry.
Beth Davies
When did you start writing and what do you think attracted you to poetry?
Probably when I was at primary school, around seven or eight. And I just always loved reading or being read to when I was a kid. My mum used to have to read to me to get me to stop crying. I think it’s the sound of language that I got totally attracted to. I used to dictate poems to my mum when I first started to get interested in creating things myself. A lot of my poems even now start from sound rather than from a sense of what I want to talk about. It’s quite a musical, miracle sort of thing for me.
I used to dictate poems to my mum when I first started to get interested in creating things myself. A lot of my poems even now start from sound rather than from a sense of what I want to talk about.
What motivated you to go on to focus on a career in writing?
I always think career is a weird word around poetry. A lot of people talk about poetry as a career but for me it never really feels like a career. It’s just something that I’ve always had an impulse to do, whether or not I could make any sort of living from it. I think that, like a lot of writers, but especially a lot of poets, I don’t feel like I’m very articulate most of the time. if I’m talking to people in conversation, if I’m emailing someone even, I just get really nervous and often feel like that thing that I’m saying isn’t quite what I really mean. But poetry has always been a bit different. It’s something about how short and concise it is as a form. I feel like, if I’ve managed to get it into that small shape on the page, it must be what I really want or need to say. And there’s something really appealing about that, rather than the rest of the time feeling like you’re not quite getting it right or you’re not quite communicating properly. I guess that means I’ll always want to express myself, whether or not anybody’s wanting to publish it, so I always think of it as more of a vocation than a career.
But poetry has always been a bit different. It’s something about how short and concise it is as a form. I feel like, if I’ve managed to get it into that small shape on the page, it must be what I really want or need to say.