From the clash between striking miners and police to the delicate conflicts in p
ersonal relationships, Helen Mort's stunning debut is marked by distance and div
ision. Named for a street in Sheffield, this is a collection that cherishes spec
ificity: the particularity of names; the reflections the world throws back at us
; the precise moment of a realisation.
Distinctive and assured, these poems s
how us how, at the site of conflict, a moment of reconciliation can be born.
