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On decoy herons, boxing feints and false epiphany: open.substack.com/pub/helenmor...
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Well, look what’s about to appear in the world! With work from the collectively and individually fab @katharinenorbury.bsky.social @anitasethi.bsky.social @pollyrowena.bsky.social Josie Giles @helenmort.bsky.social Kate Davis Beatrice Searle Anna Fleming Linda Cracknell and Gail Simmons
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Guest authors, new to A Time and a Place! @centreplacewriting.bsky.social open.substack.com/pub/helenmor...
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2 months til my new book is out. Sarah Hall describes STEPMOTHER as ‘brave, graceful and absolutely vital.’ It will be published on July 2nd and you can now pre-order. www.penguin.co.uk/books/476288...
🎉 🥳 Arvon PLUS in September with me, Declan Ryan and Sarah Howe. Two experienced editors and…er, me! Who fancies joining us? The course includes extra days to write at the end, unique to the ‘Arvon plus’ format. www.arvon.org/writing-cour...
'She looks like the real thing'
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Fake plastic watering heron
More herons (a siege of herons??? That’s the plural!) for my paid subscribers: open.substack.com/pub/helenmor...
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What hides inside things we do not know how to listen to?
Heron on the stroke ward
Buy tickets – Online Workshop: Writing Poems with Helen Mort – Zoom
Online Workshop: Writing Poems with Helen Mort – Zoom, Tue 9 Jun 2026 - Writing Poems Join expert poetry tutor Helen Mort as she helps you put pen to paper in a 90 minute workshop filled with inspirin...
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New poetry on A Time and a Place
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'Euripides said "better a serpent than a stepmother." For a moment, you like the idea of being a single line, winding around everything you touch. A vine.' 'Brave, graceful and absolutely vital' SARA...
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Featured poet: Supriya Kaur Dhaliwal
STEPMOTHER
Sometimes finding inspiration isn’t the biggest challenge: it’s moulding your poems into the best shape, the best form, the best sequence or collection once you have the raw material. What makes a gre...
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Heron as grumpy old man
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Residential Arvon Plus: Poetry | Arvon
'Seen from antiquity / you gain the Icarus thing'
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Kerri Andrews
Happy to be a contributor to this new anthology published in August! “Women, Walking: Contemporary Voices on Nature & Belonging” Edited by Kerri Andrews @kerriandrewsuk.bsky.social In my contribution, I chronicle my night walk through Manchester. www.batsfordbooks.com/book/women-w...
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Anita Sethi 🍃📚
I’m sharing snippets from new, evolving non fiction about herons on my Substack (extra heron content for paid subscribers coming soon!): open.substack.com/pub/helenmor...
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I had a friend who was heron. The river claimed him for good.
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Grief heron
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