Podcast appearances and mentions of Helen Mort

Alex Woolhouse, Pro Bono Executive at Mishcon de Reya explores the type of intimate image abuse that associate, Katie Mehew has seen at the SPITE clinic with Queen Mary Legal Advice Centre. Helen Mort, poet and survivor of Intimate Image Abuse talks about her experience and Kate Parker from the Schools Consent Project talks about the need for education in this area.

This is a selection of some of the best bits according to how many people downloaded it and the amount of positive feedback they received. They are from, in order, Episode 1, Episode 3, Episode 5, Episode 7, Episode 8, Episode 9, Episode 15 and Episode 19. Thanks again to Philippe Edwards, Patrick Ryan, Helen Mort and Ray Tonge. For more go to www.adriangrscott.com 

What's it like being awake at 4am? How do we feel about toads? Where does the word chortle come from, and when is an anthem truly personal?Ian McMillan gets to the heart of these questions through brand new poetry commissions, exploring the poems and poets we love, and through celebrating language's delights and quirks - all in the company of his guests: the poets Jackie Kay and Helen Mort, the actor Paterson Joseph, and the singer, songwriter and song 'treasurer' Sam Lee.Guests: Helen Mort's latest books are 'The Illustrated Woman' and 'A Line Above the Sky'. She shares a new commission called 'Corners' about the experience of being awake at 4am. Sam Lee joins her for the performance.Jackie Kay is the former Scottish Makar - her new poetry collection is May Day. Jackie discusses a poem by the Scottish poet Norman MacCaig called 'Toad', and reads her own poem 'Cairn'.Sam Lee's new album is Songdreaming. Sam is an arranger, folksong interpreter, passionate conservationist, song collector and creator of live events. He performs 'Banna's Lonely Shore', a song that he heard the Irish Traveller Nan Connors perform, and which he has never heard anywhere else.Paterson Joseph is an award-winning writer and actor, known for his powerful Shakespearian performances as well as his comic roles in television series like 'Green Wing' and 'Peep Show'. Paterson performs Lewis Carroll's 'Jabberwocky'. His novel is called 'The Secret Diaries of Charles Ignatius Sancho'.

Poet Ian McMillan has a gift for the art of small pleasures; the joy of close observation; revelling in everyday things, places and encounters; describing and re-describing them endlessly. In the company of fellow poets Helen Mort, Steve Ely and Dave Green he takes us to ordinary places that fascinate him: a railway platform with a striking red bench, on a bus journey, to a village cafe, and a local museum of curiosities; where we discover they can be portals into different ways of thinking, of feeling, and of being, where anything can happen, where the ordinary can become the extraordinary if we simply open our eyes and our ears. Presented by Ian McMillanProduced by Cecile Wright

This edition of the verb is a celebration of the physical - everything from mountain climbing, human desire, a mother's touch or the act of writing. The poet Helen Mort writes in her head, while running, climbing and she even wrote one whilst in labour. She tells Ian about her new collection The Illustrated Woman - inspired by what she calls a "pain epiphany" while being tattooed - and how her poems "spookily" prefigure her life. The Norfolk born writer Jon Ransom wrote The Whale Tattoo, which won the Polari first book award, on his phone on the bus. His new novel The Gallopers opens in the aftermath of the 1953 North Sea flood where 19-year-old Eli yearns for Jimmy Smart, the handsome older fairground worker his aunt has taken in. And award-winning poet Victoria Kennefick has written on the back of her child's drawings and on shop receipts when an idea urgently strikes. She tells Ian McMillan about her collection Egg/Shell, inspired by a lockdown encounter with a swan whose eggs wouldn't hatch. Produced in Salford by Olive Clancy.

In the short doco My Blonde GF, British writer Helen Mort talks about discovering her face has been used in fake images posted on a porn site. The huge surge in deepfake and revenge porn images – which almost exclusively target women – is a "dark symptom of isolation" in our culture, says the film's director Rosie Morris.

In playwright Sadie Hasler's new thriller, Killing Jack, she explores women reclaiming the streets today, while honouring the lives of Polly, Annie, Elizabeth, Catherine and Mary Jane – the women killed by Jack the Ripper. She chats to our Mick about family trees, class and privilege, difficult conversations, and why she's not having Jack the Ripper in her Jack the Ripper play. Jen chats to director Rosie Morris, whose documentary short, My Blonde GF, tells the story of Helen Mort, a woman whose life was turned upside down when she discovered she'd been the victim of deepfake pornography. They also talk about the deep-rooted misogyny that runs alongside image-based sexual assault, and why we need to think about what we post online.And it's ballet a-go-go in this week's Rated or Dated as Mick and Hannah watch Powell and Pressburger 1948 classic The Red Shoes. Support this show http://supporter.acast.com/standardissuespodcast. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

https://youtu.be/EP6MPcGFn04?si=Ftwaig_-pngCUD3w DeepFake - 1 - Image Hijacked   Welcome everyone to Redemption Church and to the month of October! We are so glad to have you here with us in Plano Tx. Blessings to everyone joining us online.   DeepFake We always like to do things a little differently in October. Our world is becoming more and more technologically advanced. The ability to take visuals and audio and manipulate them to trick others is at a level few imagined possible. For decades, graphic artists have been able to edit pictures and video using software like photoshop. Now with the invention of AI, artificial intelligence can manipulate video and audio at a higher level and to do it in real time. Our intro video seemed a little different because none of the faces or voices you experienced in the video were actual people. All of that was generated by AI. I supplied the script and A.I. did the rest instantly. The faces and voices were synthesized from thousands of facial features and voice recordings. The technology was able to create a lifelike image… and yet I think you would agree that there was something about these images that was not true to life.  Most people describe it as lacking soul. This kind of technology is an example of “deepfake.”   Deepfakes are synthetic media that have been digitally manipulated to replace one person's image convincingly with that of another. Deepfakes are the manipulation of facial appearance through deep generative methods. The first time I really became aware of deepfake technology was in 2018 when a comedian named Jordan Peele did a deepfake of President Barrack Obama.   Jordan Peele spoke into a camera and did a verbal impression of the former President, and then a computer took that footage and voice and applied to it a database of Barrack Obama's face and made the image of Barrack Obama say the silly thinks Jordan Peele was saying. The visual image of Obama was very convincing. That was in 2018. Deepfake technology has been in production since 1997 when a “Video Rewrite Program” was created. The groundbreaking boasted that it could “synthesize new facial animations from an audio output. It built upon older work that interpreted faces, synthesized audio from text, and modeled lips in 3D space, but was the first to put this all together and animate it convincingly.”  https://medium.com/@songda/a-short-history-of-deepfakes-604ac7be6016   Deepfake is largely used is silly ways, like face-swapping Elon Musk's face on the body of Dwayne “The Rock” Johnson. As technology has grown, the deepfakes become more and more convincing… and more and more dangerous.   The Hijacking of an Image At its core, deepfake is the hijacking of an image.  The image that the creator made is being taken and altered and manipulated by another. In 2020 a lady named Helen Mort was horrified to see her image plastered all over a porn site. Someone had taken images of her from her Facebook profile… not sexual pictures but pictures at holiday gatherings, weddings, and parties. But they took these pictures and manipulated them through deepfake and placed Helen Mort within a violent and graphic pornographic scene. Helen says that she felt such shame, and that she still has nightmares about this violation of her identity. As technology continues to increase, these dangers grow more prevalent. It leaves many to ask, “how can we trust what we see and hear?” There is Spiritual significance attached to the idea of an image being hijacked. The struggle we face is much more than technological. The danger is more than hackers stealing your personal identity.  There are spiritual forces that want to corrupt and manipulate your image, the image of those around you, and the image of God.   DeepFake Over the next 5 weeks we are going to be learning about the concept of the Image of God, how it has been deepfaked and hijacked by sin, and how to reclaim the image.   The Image of God What does God look like?

In this episode, poet, radio host and editor Lois P. Jones talks about the poem that has been a friend to her: 'What Survives' by Rainer Maria Rilke, translated by A. Poulin Jr.Lois P. Jones is a luminous poet, radio host and editor, living in California. She won the 2023 Alpine Fellowship which this year takes place in Fjällnäs, Sweden. She was a finalist in the annual Mslexia Poetry Competition judged by Helen Mort and will be published in Spring 2023. In 2022 her work was a finalist for both the Best Spiritual Literature Award in Poetry from Orison Books and the Tom Howard/Margaret Reid Poetry Contest. Lois' first collection, 'Night Ladder' was published by Glass Lyre Press in 2017 and was a finalist for the Julie Suk Award and the Lascaux Poetry Prize for a poetry collection. Since 2007, has hosted KPFK's Poets Café, co-produced the Moonday Poetry Series and acted as poetry editor for Pushcart and Utne prize-winning Kyoto Journal.'What Survives' was published in The Complete French Poems of Rainer Maria Rilke, translated by A. Poulin, Jr, by Graywolf Press in 2002.Lois P. Jones is in conversation with The Poetry Exchange hosts Fiona Bennett and Michael Shaeffer.The 'gift' reading of 'What Survives' is by Fiona and Michael.*********What Survivesby Rainer Maria Rilketranslated by A. Poulin, Jr.Who says that all must vanish?Who knows, perhaps the flightof the bird you wound remains,and perhaps flowers surviveour caresses, in their ground. It isn't the gesture that lasts,but it dresses you again in goldarmor--from breast to knees—and the battle was so puremay an Angel wear it after you.From The Complete French Poems of Rainer Maria Rilke, translated by A. Poulin, Jr. (Graywolf Press, 2002). Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

The poems used are 'He sings a song of the younger world' as yet unpublished - Gabriel and There is No Such Thing As Right And Wrong from The Call of the Unwritten - The Lost Eden and The Tremor of Silk from A Night Sea Journey all available at www.adriangrscott.com The two books mentioned are The Call of the Wild by Jack London and Never Leave the Dog Behind by Helen Mort. 

Five more writers go on five reflective, restorative and often playful journeys in search of the final resting places of their literary heroes. Today Helen Mort ventures up a Yorkshire hill to find Sylvia Plath's much-vandalised gravestone, a battleground for those claiming the American poet's contested legacy. Born in Sheffield, Mort is an award-winning poet and novelist. Producer: Ciaran Bermingham

Helen Mort is the subject of the new Nothing But The Poem podcast. The SPL's regular podcast host, Sam Tongue, takes a deep dive into two of Helen Mort's poems which were discussed at the online monthly meet-up of the Nothing But The Poem group. Helen Mort is an award winning poet from Sheffield who's had 3 collections of poetry published. Her most recent collection, The Illustrated Woman (2022), was shortlisted for the Forward Poetry Prize. The book's blurb at HelenMort.com reads: '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. Andrew McMillan said of the collection: 'These are poems that will leave their indelible mark' Kate Kellaway, reviewing the book in the Guardian, wrote: The Illustrated Woman explores tattoos through history and, lucid though these poems are, you need to reread them often to acquire the deepest sense of what is being said. Mort presents tattoos variously: as painful and cherished keepsakes, exposure and concealment combined, flirtations with indelibility. The two poems discussed in this podcast – Ablation and The Tattooed Lady – can be found in No Map Could Show Them (Chatto) and The Illustrated Woman (Penguin).  

The Verb is lured this week into seductive places: poet Luke Wright presents a show full of light, cool water, shadows on stone, and the over-reliance on place-names (by lyricists). His guests are the poet Helen Mort (who shares poems of swimming and Lincolnshire from her collection 'The Illustrated Woman'), by the cartoonist and writer Martin Rowson who tries to persuade Luke that his passion for the Evelyn Waugh novel 'Brideshead Revisited' is misplaced - by Kate Fox (Verb regular and stand-up poet) who discovers seduction nirvana in an unlikely popular song, and by Anita Sethi (author of 'I Belong Here' ) who shares her love of Manchester's Oxford Road, and Manchester Museum where she is writer-in-residence. Our 'Something New' poem (celebrating 100 years of the BBC) is by Jean Sprackland, and our 'Something Old' poem is 'Sea Fever' by John Masefield. Ian McMillan presents again next week - exploring the power and pleasure of last lines.

Joy is...an undulating path.Helen Mort is an award-winning poet and novelist, with a life-long passion for running, climbing and the outdoors. She has published three poetry collections, the latest of which, The Illustrated Woman, was shortlisted for the Forward Prize. She has also been shortlisted for the T.S.Eliot Prize, the Costa Prize and won the Fenton Aldeburgh Prize in 2015. She appears regularly on BBC radio, has taught creative writing for over ten years, and is currently Senior Lecturer at Manchester Metropolitan University. Landscape is an important presence in her writing, and many of her poems have been composed while walking or running in the Cumbrian fells. Her first full length non-fiction book A Line Above the Sky, which recently won the Boardman Tasker Prize for Mountain Literature, is a love letter to losing oneself in physicality, dovetailing the acts of climbing and bringing a child into the world in a dance that melds nature writing and memoir to explore why humans are drawn to danger; how we can find freedom in pushing limits; attitudes towards women who do so, and the question of ownership of one's body.This is truly one of my favourite conversations of all time. A few technical glitches meant that it took place over two days; however, many ideas that we touched upon on the first day, simmered overnight so that, what would become, 'Part Two', really enriches the themes that we initially dipped into. We flit from the intensely personal to the theoretical, emerging with many more questions and paths of inquiry to hopefully continue over a run, a pint and matching Mary Oliver tattoos!We discussed: attitudes towards hills; being awkward teenagers and channeling our inner flying squirrels; incidental meetings and sharing stories; struggling with expectations; getting honest about the joys but also problems in our relationships with running; how movement can facilitate creativity; embodiment and lyrical messiness; how we are seen/read and therefore how we project ourselves; tattoos and making our own maps; the conflicting responsibilities, expectations, double-binds, value judgments and presumed identities surrounding pregnancy and motherhood; interdependence with the landscape and which rock face you'd bring home to meet your mother; representation and the privilege of space; climbing, crinolines and the politics of clothing; dangerous women; measuring success and why we 'do not have to be good'; how writing and climbing bring us back to ourselves, and why we should embrace a life of 'book stacks'.Discover: www.helenmort.comFollow: Twitter: @HelenMortInstagram: @morty_but_niceRead: The Illustrated Woman; A Line Above the Sky; The Wild VersesWatch: Run to the SourcePhoto Credit: Joe Horner Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

We read the story 'Waiting' by Alexa Kellow and the poem 'a pint for the true shepherds' by Helen Mort

Helen Mort's latest collection, The Illustrated Woman, has just been shortlisted for the Forward Prize, the latest accolade in what has been an incredibly productive year: 2022 has also seen the publication of her memoir of walking and motherhood, A Line above the Sky, and a collaborative lyric essay (with Kate Fletcher), Outfitting, exploring fashion and wild ecology.Caroline Bird's latest book is Rookie, a long-awaited selection gathering material from her seven Carcanet collections – including The Air Year, which won the Forward Prize in 2020. She is also a playwright, and was an official poet for the London Olympics in 2012.Mort and Bird discuss and read from their work.Find upcoming events at the Bookshop here: https://lrb.me/upcomingevents Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

'Poets are said to do their best work in their early years. Young poets aren't always the best judge of what's good, though. 'Poets are said to do their best work in their early years (Thom Gunn wrote Fighting Terms as a student, and how old was Helen Mort when she began?) Young poets aren't always the best judge of what's good, though. Editorial skills come later.

In the world of Irish television, Clare McKenna is a TV and radio presenter with years of experience in broadcasting and journalism. She has presented a wide range of live Irish TV and radio shows, including co-presenting Spin 1038's talk show for 7 years, which was nominated for the prestigious PPI Award three times and won gold for Best Speech Best Programme in 2010. She has presented RTE's The Liffey Laugh and worked as a reporter on then TV3's Midweek as well as their flagship breakfast programme, Ireland AM and The Elaine Show. More recently, Clare works at Newstalk presenting their health and wellness show, Alive and Kicking, and covering Lunchtime Live.This week, I share my conversation on Clare's show, Alive, and Kicking. We discuss what Lifestyle Medicine is and how it can help support, or even reverse chronic health conditions. We discuss why it's important to use lifestyle medicine techniques as an additional ‘tool in your toolkit for achieving optimal health. We discuss how improving your health starts with small, incremental baby steps and share a few tips on how you can take those first steps toward improving your health. We discuss the challenges of managing stress and anxiety and why stress should be considered neither good nor bad, but as a mechanism to help us survive and thrive. We also discuss how you can recharge from stressful situations – even before the stress begins – and explain the G.L.A.D technique for overcoming stress and anxiety.“Lifestyle medicine is not only a very effective way to support people who have chronic health conditions, it can become an effective treatment in its own right.” – Dr. Mark RoweThis week on In the Doctor's Chair:Understanding what Lifestyle Medicine isHow Lifestyle Medicine can help support – or even reverse – certain chronic health conditionsTaking baby steps toward improving your healthTips for taking the first step to improving your healthWhere positive health changes truly beginThe challenges of managing stress and anxietyFinding ways to recharge from stressThe G.L.A.D. technique to recharge from stressResources Mentioned:Book: The Vitality Mark: Your prescription for feeling energised, invigorated, enthusiastic and optimistic each day by Dr. Mark RoweAlive and Kicking Podcast Episode: The Vitality Mark with Mark Rowe & Helen Mort on Mountains & MotherhoodConnect with Clare McKenna:NewstalkPodcast: Newstalk's Alive and Kicking with Clare McKennaNewstalk on LinkedInNewstalk on InstagramNewstalk on FacebookNewstalk on TwitterNewstalk on YouTubeClare McKenna on LinkedIn In the Doctor's ChairThanks for listening to In the Doctor's Chair, the show where you'll hear conversations that share life lessons, health habits, and leadership practices that focus on positive psychology, lifestyle medicine, and ways for you to live with more vitality.If you enjoyed this episode, please subscribe to the show and leave a comment wherever you listen to your podcasts.For more resources to help you to live with more vitality, please visit my website.Apple Podcasts | TuneIn | Google Play | Stitcher | Spotify The post #82 Achieving Optimal Health Through Lifestyle Medicine with Clare McKenna appeared first on Mark Rowe.

In the world of Irish television, Clare McKenna is a TV and radio presenter with years of experience in broadcasting and journalism. She has presented a wide range of live Irish TV and radio shows, including co-presenting Spin 1038's talk show for 7 years, which was nominated for the prestigious PPI Award three times and won gold for Best Speech Best Programme in 2010. She has presented RTE's The Liffey Laugh and worked as a reporter on then TV3's Midweek as well as their flagship breakfast programme, Ireland AM and The Elaine Show. More recently, Clare works at Newstalk presenting their health and wellness show, Alive and Kicking, and covering Lunchtime Live.This week, I share my conversation on Clare's show, Alive, and Kicking. We discuss what Lifestyle Medicine is and how it can help support, or even reverse chronic health conditions. We discuss why it's important to use lifestyle medicine techniques as an additional ‘tool in your toolkit for achieving optimal health. We discuss how improving your health starts with small, incremental baby steps and share a few tips on how you can take those first steps toward improving your health. We discuss the challenges of managing stress and anxiety and why stress should be considered neither good nor bad, but as a mechanism to help us survive and thrive. We also discuss how you can recharge from stressful situations – even before the stress begins – and explain the G.L.A.D technique for overcoming stress and anxiety.“Lifestyle medicine is not only a very effective way to support people who have chronic health conditions, it can become an effective treatment in its own right.” – Dr. Mark RoweThis week on In the Doctor's Chair:Understanding what Lifestyle Medicine isHow Lifestyle Medicine can help support – or even reverse – certain chronic health conditionsTaking baby steps toward improving your healthTips for taking the first step to improving your healthWhere positive health changes truly beginThe challenges of managing stress and anxietyFinding ways to recharge from stressThe G.L.A.D. technique to recharge from stressResources Mentioned:Book: The Vitality Mark: Your prescription for feeling energised, invigorated, enthusiastic and optimistic each day by Dr. Mark RoweAlive and Kicking Podcast Episode: The Vitality Mark with Mark Rowe & Helen Mort on Mountains & MotherhoodConnect with Clare McKenna:NewstalkPodcast: Newstalk's Alive and Kicking with Clare McKennaNewstalk on LinkedInNewstalk on InstagramNewstalk on FacebookNewstalk on TwitterNewstalk on YouTubeClare McKenna on LinkedIn In the Doctor's ChairThanks for listening to In the Doctor's Chair, the show where you'll hear conversations that share life lessons, health habits, and leadership practices that focus on positive psychology, lifestyle medicine, and ways for you to live with more vitality.If you enjoyed this episode, please subscribe to the show and leave a comment wherever you listen to your podcasts.For more resources to help you to live with more vitality, please visit my website.Apple Podcasts | TuneIn | Google Play | Stitcher | Spotify The post #82 Achieving Optimal Health Through Lifestyle Medicine with Clare McKenna appeared first on Mark Rowe.

In the world of Irish television, Clare McKenna is a TV and radio presenter with years of experience in broadcasting and journalism. She has presented a wide range of live Irish TV and radio shows, including co-presenting Spin 1038's talk show for 7 years, which was nominated for the prestigious PPI Award three times and won gold for Best Speech Best Programme in 2010. She has presented RTE's The Liffey Laugh and worked as a reporter on then TV3's Midweek as well as their flagship breakfast programme, Ireland AM and The Elaine Show. More recently, Clare works at Newstalk presenting their health and wellness show, Alive and Kicking, and covering Lunchtime Live. This week, I share my conversation on Clare's show, Alive, and Kicking. We discuss what Lifestyle Medicine is and how it can help support, or even reverse chronic health conditions. We discuss why it's important to use lifestyle medicine techniques as an additional ‘tool in your toolkit for achieving optimal health. We discuss how improving your health starts with small, incremental baby steps and share a few tips on how you can take those first steps toward improving your health. We discuss the challenges of managing stress and anxiety and why stress should be considered neither good nor bad, but as a mechanism to help us survive and thrive. We also discuss how you can recharge from stressful situations – even before the stress begins – and explain the G.L.A.D technique for overcoming stress and anxiety. “Lifestyle medicine is not only a very effective way to support people who have chronic health conditions, it can become an effective treatment in its own right.” – Dr. Mark Rowe This week on In the Doctor's Chair: Understanding what Lifestyle Medicine is How Lifestyle Medicine can help support – or even reverse – certain chronic health conditions Taking baby steps toward improving your health Tips for taking the first step to improving your health Where positive health changes truly begin The challenges of managing stress and anxiety Finding ways to recharge from stress The G.L.A.D. technique to recharge from stress Resources Mentioned: Book: The Vitality Mark: Your prescription for feeling energised, invigorated, enthusiastic and optimistic each day by Dr. Mark Rowe Alive and Kicking Podcast Episode: The Vitality Mark with Mark Rowe & Helen Mort on Mountains & Motherhood Connect with Clare McKenna: Newstalk Podcast: Newstalk's Alive and Kicking with Clare McKenna Newstalk on LinkedIn Newstalk on Instagram Newstalk on Facebook Newstalk on Twitter Newstalk on YouTube Clare McKenna on LinkedIn   In the Doctor's Chair Thanks for listening to In the Doctor's Chair, the show where you'll hear conversations that share life lessons, health habits, and leadership practices that focus on positive psychology, lifestyle medicine, and ways for you to live with more vitality. If you enjoyed this episode, please subscribe to the show and leave a comment wherever you listen to your podcasts. For more resources to help you to live with more vitality, please visit my website. Apple Podcasts | TuneIn | Google Play | Stitcher | Spotify   The post #82 Achieving Optimal Health Through Lifestyle Medicine with Clare McKenna appeared first on Mark Rowe.

Helen Mort is one of the UK's most exciting young voices. She came into the SPL to talk about her second book No Maps Could Show Them (Chatto & Windus) and to read poems from the collection. During the course of the interview, she talks about female pioneers of mountaineering, the strange health risks men believed running posed women, and the historical characters she's drawn to writing about. You can order Helen's second collection No Maps Could Show Them from the SPL shop. If you would prefer to read, rather than listen to, our podcast with Helen Mort, click here to see a transcript of the interview.

Among the 20th-century's most significant English-language poets, Philip Larkin (1922-1985) is often regarded as one of literature's great pessimists, a writer who described postwar Britain and the mores of modernity with a gloomy cynicism bordering on the fanatical. Dismissive of notions of god and religion, drawn to failures of human communication, he is a figure reluctantly moored to the meaninglessness of the quotidian. And yet, from such positions of despair, his poetry often reaches for the divine: he is also a soul in search of something beyond the seen, whose best poems reach for the numinous, celebrating moments of mystery and encounters with “unfenced existence”. In a week of essays marking his centenary year, five contemporary poets each take a short poem by Larkin as the starting point for an exploration into their own attitudes to faith, belief and the spiritual. In this concluding episode, Helen Mort visits her father in hospital in an essay on mortality, meaning and mystery, inspired by Larkin's verse 'Going'. Writer and reader: Helen Mort Producer: Phil Smith A Far Shoreline production for BBC Radio 3

Anna had her first child during the pandemic and she found her maternity leave to be really isolating and depressing. It was only once she was able to go back to school and work that she felt like herself again. But now she's pregnant again and starting to get worried about her next maternity leave. What if she feels the same way? With help from the The Bright Field by R.S. Thomas and A Line Above the Sky by Helen Mort, Anna, Casper and Vanessa explore the sacrifices and guilt associated with motherhood. See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.

Dr Mark Rowe has been a practicing family physician for over 25 years, after his own experience of burnout he became one of the first medical doctors in Ireland to study lifestyle medicine. His latest book The Vitality Mark – Your prescription for feeling energised, invigorated, enthusiastic and optimistic each day helps identify gaps in our wellbeing and offers evidence based strategies to transform the quality of our life. He discusses his book with Clare. Helen Mort has always been drawn to the thrill and risk of climbing, the connection to the natural world it brings but when she became a mother for the first time she began to reexamine her relationship with the elements and she joined Clare to discuss her memoir – A Line Above the Sky – a story of mountains and motherhood.    

The Verb, Ian McMillan's weekly foray into writing and language examines the appeal of risk and chance. Risk is inherent to writing every time you put words on paper; whether it's risk in the use of form, or language, or subject matter. It's the risk a writer takes when they expose their own lives or the lives of others in their writing. Booker prize winning author DBC Pierre talks about his latest book 'Big Snake, Little Snake: An Inquiry into Gambling and Life'; Hannah Silva on the unpredictability of collaborating with an A-I algorithm for her latest play; poet and novelist Helen Mort, who's always been drawn to the thrill and risk of rock climbing, examines how the world views women who aren't afraid to take risks in her new book 'A Line Above the Sky' and poet Will Harris examines the role of the chance encounter in literature. Producer: Cecile Wright

In this episode, writer and musician Miles Salter talks to poet, author, mother and climber Helen Mort about her new book A Line Above The Sky, due out 24 March 2022.

In this episode, writer and musician Miles Salter talks to poet, author, mother and climber Helen Mort about her new book A Line Above The Sky, due out 24 March 2022.

We have music and chat from the Swiss-Tamil singer Priya Ragu who has been shortlisted in the BBC Sound of 2022 Poll – joining Adele, Jessie J and Celeste. She tells us how her music plays homage to her heritage and is a fusion of traditional Tamil music, RnB and Soul, which she uniquely calls ‘Ragu Wavy'. The number of refugees leaving Ukraine has reached a million. If you were listening last week you'll remember the heart-breaking interview we did with Olena Symonenko. She had decided to flee Kyiv, and was down in a bunker with her 6 year old son. She had left her flat, which she had lived in as a child and all her adult life: and just as well she did, because her block of flats had been bombed and was on fire. She sent us a picture. We've been keeping in touch with Olena all week, tracking her journey and she's now in Poland. Sharmadean Reid is the Founder and CEO of The Stack World. Her mission is to create economic and social empowerment for women through technology and media. She has been building Women's communities for 16 years, starting with a print magazine called WAH which she created while at university. She tells us about The Stack World, and how the platform helps women entrepreneurs to monetise their micro communities through buying and selling from each other. We celebrate the emotional power of old clothes and today we hear from Sarah who tells us about the Janet Reger frilly knickers she received from her friend Ruth on her 21st birthday nearly 40 years ago. Mountains have long inspired climbers to write about their adventures. It's been a male dominated field but we hear from two women who are inspiring the next generation of climbers. The author and poet Helen Mort tells us about her memoir ‘A Line Above the Sky' and author Amy McCulloch talks about her adult fiction debut ‘Breathless'. Presenter: Anita Rani Producer: Rabeka Nurmahomed

Writer Helen Mort and triathlete Courtney Atkinson talk with hosts Erin Azar and Ayo Akinwolere about what running means to them. Helen Mort is a renowned poet and novelist – she discusses how running can scratch the creative itch. Professional Australian triathlete Courtney Atkinson dives in to share his thoughts on running. Could running be the creative outlet everyone should discover? Want to run? Join the Why I Run Podcast team at www.wingsforlifeworldrun.com/whyirunteam You can tune in to every episode on redbull.com/WhyIRun, and let your voice be heard – drop us a note on the feed at www.wingsforlifeworldrun.com/teams or leave a review!

Last year, poet Helen Mort discovered that images taken from her social media page had been uploaded to a porn website. Users of the site were invited to edit the photos, merging Helen's face with explicit and violent sexual images. This is deepfake pornography. In I see You: Poetry Porn and Me, Helen reclaims her voice as she reflects on this experience and charts the journey she has taken to come to terms with being a victim. Unable to get support from the law - as deepfakes are not illegal - Helen navigates a new path for herself. She speaks to storytellers, vocal coaches, tattooists and others on this journey, which interrogates how we look at women's bodies, and the way women are valued and in turn, value themselves. Weaving between poetry and interviews, the programme follows Helen through the different stages of letting go, rediscovering her voice and restoring some control over what happened to her. An Overtone production for BBC Radio 4

Hazel Press's four 2020 titles were all LRB Bookshop bestsellers; we're proud to be launching the first tranche of their four 2021 titles, one an electrifying collaborative poem, one a unique anthology.Katrina Naomi and Helen Mort were reading from Same But Different, a lockdown collaboration which began as simply an exchange of poems; but like Wang Wei and Pei Di's Wang River Collaboration, their poems soon started to speak to one another. Belinda Zhawi, Ella Duffy, Maggi Hambling and Georgie Henley read their own and one other poem from O, an anthology about sensuality, masturbation, orgasms, and pleasure, with ourselves and with others; offering a safe space to celebrate our bodies, lust, passion, fun, joy, defiance, tenderness and intimacy. See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.

Guests Helen Mort and Joe Kriss join hosts Letty Butler and Stephen Mellor in a Christmas podcast with a difference, for both writers and readers alike. In this episode, Helen, Joe, and Letty enter a seasonal world of lonely freelance Christmas parties, David Beckham, kipperlips and Sally Rooney chat up lines — oh, and Letty makes an innuendo about crackers and Stephen has to go for a lie down. The prompts today were 200 words on a pre-prepared prompt of 'It happened at the Christmas party.' Three minutes to respond to either 'a pair of tweezers, a pencil, or a playing card,' and one minute to respond to 'the tree isn't real.' More info about the hosts and guests can be found at www.prompetyprompt.co.uk You can discover more from Helen Mort by visiting her website at www.HelenMort.com and you can discover more from Joe Kriss and Wordlife by visiting www.wordlife.co.uk Why not have a go at all these prompts yourself (but don't forget to time yourself and don't cheat!) and send us your own responses at prompetyprompt@gmail.com or via twitter.com/prompetyprompt & instagram.com/prompetyprompt A Cornucopia Radio production Co-created & Produced by Letty Butler and Stephen Mellor Based on an original idea by Stephen Mellor.

Your last encounter with a poem may well have taken place in a grim classroom, perhaps a painful dissection of WB Yeats or Matthew Arnold. Poetry can be something entirely different, however, and prize-winning poet John McCullough gives us poetry that is a source of joy, mindfulness and sheer fun. John McCullough “guides us through a world of déjà vu, doubt and rapture” (Helen Mort). His poetry gives us “fresh insight into vulnerability and suffering”, according to the judges of the Costa Poetry Award.  His poems reference Kate Bush, Lady Gaga, birdlife, Grindr and My Little Pony, while exploring love, loneliness and issues like homelessness and homophobia.  In this episode Andrew and John talk about the ways poetry can make your life richer, deeper and more meaningful. Poetry helps us live in the moment, it offers a rest from relentless rational thinking and it helps us to process our experiences and make sense of them. John McCullough's latest book of poems, Reckless Paper Birds, won the 2020 Hawthornden Prize for Literature and was shortlisted for the Costa Poetry Award. He has also won the Polari First Book Prize and his collections have been named Books of the Year in The Independent, The Guardian and The Observer. He is featured regularly in magazines such as Poetry London, Poetry Review and The New Statesman. Most recently, his poem 'Flower of Sulphur' was shortlisted for the 2021 Forward Prize for Best Single Poem. John lives in Hove with his partner and two cats, and teaches creative writing at the Open University and the University of Brighton.    Follow Up Join our Supporters Club to access exclusive behind-the-scenes content, fan requests and the chance to ask Andrew your own questions. Membership starts at just £4.50. Read Reckless Paper Birds, John McCullough's Hawthornden Prize winning collection. Find out about John McCullough's other books. Follow John McCullough on Twitter @JohnMcCullough_ and Instagram @mrjohnmccullough Get Andrew's advice on creating change in your life and relationships in his book Wake Up and Change Your Life: How to Survive a Crisis and Be Stronger, Wiser and Happier. Listen to Andrew's interview with author Josh Cohen on “How to Live: What You Can Learn From Your Favourite Literary Character”. Andrew offers regular advice on love, marriage and finding meaning in your life via his social channels. Follow him on Twitter, Facebook and YouTube @andrewgmarshall 

During the last week of July, we were joined in Endcliffe Park, one of Sheffield's many green spaces by a lovely group of Sheffielders as well as the award winning poet and novelist, Helen Mort. Helen led us on a walk through the woods, and beside the river, and along the way read pieces from her various published works. We enjoyed it so much, we thought it would be nice to share the experience more widely, so Helen very kindly offered to record a condensed version of the walk for you to enjoy at home. If you want to learn more about Helen and her work, you can visit her website, all good bookshops, or of course your local library. https://www.helenmort.com/

Helen Mort and Dan Richards were at the shop to talk about poetry and mountaineering. Mort read from her latest collection from Chatto and Windus, No Map Could Show Them (a Poetry Book Society recommendation), which recounts in Mort's inimitable style the exploits of pathbreaking female mountaineers. Afterwards she was in conversation with Dan Richards, whose book Climbing Days (Faber) explores the writing and climbing exploits of his great-great aunt and uncle, Dorothy Pilley and I.A. Richards. See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.

Poet and self-confessed apology addict Helen Mort explores the human impulse to apologise and what we seek when we say sorry. She reflects that sometimes remorse and forgiveness are only part of the story and can mask more complex emotions and subtexts. Drawing on some of the poems that have helped shape her including William Carlos Williams's poem This Is Just to Say, Helen shines a light on what we're really doing when we say sorry. Producer: Zita Adamson An Overtone Production for BBC Radio 3

From the appeal of trickster gods Anansi and Loki to the joy of comics and fantasy: Booker prize winner Marlon James and Neil Gaiman, author of the book American Gods which has been turned into a TV series, talk writing and reading with Matthew Sweet in a conversation organised in partnership with the Royal Society of Literature and the British Library. Neil Gaiman is an author of books for children and adults whose titles include Norse Mythology, American Gods, The Graveyard Book, Good Omens (with Terry Pratchett), Coraline, and the Sandman graphic novels. He also writes children's books and poetry, has written and adapted for radio, TV and film and for DC Comics. Marlon James is the author of the Booker Prize winning and New York Times bestseller A Brief History of Seven Killings, The Book of Night Women, John Crow's Devil and his most recent - Black Leopard, Red Wolf - which is the first in The Dark Star Trilogy in which he plans to tell the same story from different perspectives. Producer: Torquil MacLeod. You can find a playlist called Prose and Poetry featuring a range of authors including Ian Rankin, Nadifa Mohamed, Paul Mendez, Ali Smith, Helen Mort, Max Porter, Hermione Lee, Derek Owusu, Jay Bernard, Ben Okri on the Free Thinking website https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p047v6vh

This week we are bringing you two poems in from a series by the Georgian poet Salome Benidze, The Story of Flying and The Story of the poor. Salome was one of two Georgian poets who toured the UK with the PTC in 2018 alongside Diana Amphidiadi. Benidze’s poems were translated by Natalia Bukia-Peters with the UK poet Helen Mort and we published a chapbook of her poems called I wanted to ask you. 

Helen Mort has published two poetry collections with Chatto & Windus, ‘Division Street’ (2013) and ‘No Map Could Show Them’ (2015).    She won the Fenton Aldeburgh Prize for best first collection. Her novel ‘Black Car Burning’ was published in 2019.    She teaches creative writing at Manchester Metropolitan University and she is also the author of ‘Lake District Trail Running’ (Vertebrate).    Her new book is ‘Never Leave The Dog Behind’. Inspired by the story of Missy, a German Shepherd who was abandoned by two hikers in the Canadian Rockies, the book explores the relationship between people, dogs and the great outdoors, comprising interviews with dog owners and experiences with a variety of dogs as well as Helen's own observations as a runner and pet owner herself. This is a book for anyone who loves dogs or has ever been dogged by loneliness and found solace in animals and landscapes.    Helen in her own words:   “I’m a mum to a toddler, a step parent, a trail runner, climber and all round outdoor enthusiast. I love the Peak District and get out whenever I can. I grew up in Chesterfield. I love dogs, books, dancing and real ale.”   New episodes of the Tough Girl Podcast go live every Tuesday and Thursday at 7am UK time - Make sure you hit the subscribe button so you don’t miss out.    The Tough Girl Podcast is sponsorship and ad free thanks to the monthly financial support of patrons. To find out more about supporting your favourite podcast and becoming a patron please check out www.patreon.com/toughgirlpodcast.   Show notes Getting into fell running as a teenager Spending a lot of time in her own company Not looking like a runner Having a lot of stamina at a young age Doing the beep test at school Dealing with a foot injury and having a break from running Exploring different types of running Running for the experience of running Getting into climbing in Derbyshire  What does adventure mean to Helen and how it’s changed over the years Sharing adventure with someone else Her dreams as a little girl Always been a writer and getting interested in poetry  Connecting with other writers and poets Being able to make a living as a writer Becoming a poet in residence  Book - Waymaking - An anthology of women’s adventure writing, poetry and art.  Heather Dawe - Adventures in Mind  Telling stories from a female point of view Book - Never Leave the Dog Behind  The personal narrative behind the book and being scared of dogs  Getting over her fear of dogs How her relationship with the mountains changed after getting a dog Exploring the relationship between people and dogs in the mountains in a non fiction book #NeverLeaveTheDogBehind What does it mean if you invite the black dog into your home Having a reason to get out everyday  Dealing with challenging moments Being present in the moment What a perfect day in the mountains looks like Getting back into the mountains with a toddler Setting more manageable fitness challenges Motherhood and mental health challenges Getting back to fitness after having a baby Knowing that running clubs are not the right choice for her Running as and when Managing during Covid  Book - Trail Running Guide   Final words of advice to spending more time outdoors      Social Media   Website - www.helenmort.com   Twitter @HelenMort    

Helen Mort talks to me about her campaign to make non consensual deepfake porn illegal. Helen launched her petition after discovering images from her private social media had been taken and used since 2017 to make deepfake porn, where AI transposes the images onto secondary graphic material. When Helen went to report this, she found there was nothing to be done. It was not illegal. Finding a gap in the law, Helen now speaks out against this abuse and calls for a change in the law. TW discusses sexual assault and revenge porn. You can sign Helen's petition here: https://www.change.org/p/the-law-comission-tighten-regulation-on-taking-making-and-faking-explicit-images Contact Revenge Porn Helpline here: https://revengepornhelpline.org.uk/

90% des deepfakes répertoriés dans le monde sont pornographiques et utilisés comme des armes contre les femmes.Les deepfakes sont des vidéos ou photos où ont été incrustés les traits et expressions faciales d’une personne grâce à un certain nombre de photos. Elles permettent de faire faire et dire des choses à des gens en vidéo qu’ils n’ont jamais faite ou dites.Depuis que la technique se perfectionne, les inquiétudes sur la désinformation sont nombreuses. A ceux qui répondent que sauf produit par les géants du système, la qualité des deepfakes n’est pas au rendez vous, on dira que la qualité des téléphones sur lesquels sont regardés ces deepfake ne sont pas non plus toujours au rendez-vous et qu’une vidéo moyenne peut parfaitement tromper un écran moyen. Depuis le début, ce n’est pourtant pas les informations ou la géopolitiques qui font le plus les frais de ces vidéos mais les femmes.Une affaire fait pas mal de bruit au Royaume-Uni en ce moment : celle de Helen Mort, poète et animatrice radio, victime d’une campagne de harcèlement en ligne à base de fausse vidéos pornographiques d’elle. Celui qui a lancé les chiens d’Internet sur elle, avait récolté des photos sur ses réseaux sociaux y compris sur un profil Facebook pourtant supprimé. Elle a appelé la police qui lui a dit ne rien pouvoir faire.En octobre, Wired révélait l’existence d’un bot capable de créer des deepfakes très rapidement et qui aurait aurait touché plus de 100.000 femmes sur l’application de messagerie Telegram. Korii racontait alors que pour créer ces deepfakes, le bot les extrayait automatiquement des comptes personnels sur les réseaux sociaux, une photo est fournie au logiciel, qui ensuite la dénudait artificiellement avant de la partager dans un canal peuplé de 25.000 membres. Aux Etats Unis comme au Royaume-Unis, des mouvements réussissent enfin à se faire entendre et à militer pour l’interdiction légal des deepfakes pornographiques et non consentis.Crédit image : Interview d’Angèle en deepfake de son frère Roméo Elvis pour Brut. See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.

The poet and the comedian talk climbing, science fiction, and love with Harriett Gilbert.

Teaching writing - mentors Helen Mort and Blake Morrison compare notes. Plus as Georges Perec's memoir I Remember is published in English for the first time, we look at the rules of writing proposed by the Oulipo group which was founded in 1960 by Raymond Queneau and François Le Lionnais. Georges Perec (1936 – 1982) came up with a "story-making machine" and created a novel in which the letter 'e' never appears. Queneau's Exercices de Style recounts a bus journey ninety-nine times. Shahidha Bari talks to Adam Scovell and Lauren Elkin about Oulipo. Helen Mort's books include poetry collections Division Street and No Map Could Show Them and a debut novel Black Car Burning and she is a Senior Lecturer at Manchester Metropolitan University https://www.helenmort.com/ Blake Morrison's books include poetry collections Dark Glasses and Pendle Witches, And When Did You Last See Your Father? which won the JR Ackerley Prize for Autobiography and a study of the murder of James Bulger, As If. He is Professor of Creative and Life Writing at Goldsmiths College, University of London. http://www.blakemorrison.net/ Their conversation is part of the series Critical Friends organised in partnership with the Royal Society of Literature https://rsliterature.org/ You can find more writerly conversations in the Free Thinking playlist Prose and Poetry https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p047v6vh Adam Scovell is the author of novellas including How Pale the Winter Has Made Us and Mothlight Lauren Elkin is the author of The End of Oulipo? An Attempt to Exhaust a Movement and Flâneuse: Women Walk the City in Paris, New York, Tokyo, Venice, and London George Perec's I Remember translated into English by David Bellos and Philip Terry has just been published by Editions Gallic. Producer: Ruth Watts

**NEW ILLUSTRATED BOOK - RELEASED 19 NOVEMBER** We bring you exciting news that Bedtime Stories for the End of the World has partnered with Studio Press and illustrator Inkquisitive to create a wonderful illustrated book featuring stories from Malika Booker, Kayo Chingonyi, Inua Ellams, Will Harris, Helen Mort and Joelle Taylor. We speak to the writers and give a sneak preview of their stories ahead of the book's release on 29 October.  To buy a copy, visit bit.ly/InkTales Find out more about the podcast and catch up with all of our previous episodes at: endoftheworldpodcast.com

The Verb celebrates 250 years since Wordsworth's birth. Ian McMillan is joined by poets Hussain Manawer, Luke Wright, Kim Moore, and Helen Mort - part of the Contains Strong Language Festival and recorded at Dove Cottage in Grasmere, Which ideas from Wordsworth's 'Preface to the Lyrical Ballads' appeal most to our guests? Ian finds out and hears brand new poetry.

In this episode we're speaking to the writer, runner and mum, Helen Mort. Helen's fantastic short story Weaning, is one of 10 included in The Book of Sheffield, this year's Big City Read.  We also hear about her new book, Never Leave the Dog Behind, a work of non-fiction all about the unbridled joy of heading to the hills with our four-legged friends. Discover more about Helen's work at https://www.helenmort.com/

When you look at the books on a shelf of mountaineering literature one thing is quickly apparent: the vast majority are written by men. The same is true with the episodes I’ve produced for Factor Two. The simple fact is that there have historically been more men engaged in the kind of adventures that we choose to tell those high profile stories about. The kind of stories I’ve sought out have often fitted a similar mould. I came into this episode with a simplistic question. Would those stories be different if the protagonists were women? Back in 1987 Dave Cook addressed the International Festival of Mountaineering Literature with his keynote speech, Running on Empty. He argued that climbing writing was becoming stale and insular and needed to be prepared to “push the hyperspace button”. He wanted to see writing which embraced wider topics in the world and became more inclusive of ideas and people. Writing should talk about people as lovers, workers, genders and we should see the mountains not just as a playground, but as the ecosystem of which we are a part. Sound familiar? We often forget the fact that most of what we deem to be success or progress in climbing is socially defined. Our stories are important because they become the unifier - they help us understand community expectations and goals. Of course, there’s a good dose of vicarious glory to be wallowed in as well, but we often overlook that what we want to celebrate isn’t some objective reality - it’s the subjectivity of good stories. To explore this I sought the help of Helen Mort and Anna Fleming, both writers and climbers. I wanted to understand whether they’d been inspired by the same stories in the same ways that I had. Are we meeting the challenge that Dave Cook laid down more than 30 years ago? Factor Two is brought to you by Wil Treasure and UKClimbing.com You can find writing from Anna and Helen on their websites: Thegranitesea.wordpress.com helenmort.com Follow Factor Two on Facebook or Instagram. Wil Treasure on Twitter - @treasurewild Music credits: All music in this episode comes from Blue Dot Sessions.

Poet and runner Helen Mort talks to retired Olympic track and field athlete Anyika Onuora about body image in sport. In the last of three programmes about body modification and the relationship between how we present ourselves physically to the world and how we feel, Helen swaps experiences with Anyika about striving for ’the perfect image‘ and the effects training and competitive sport have on the body’s shape. Anyika reveals her lack of confidence about her body and how she managed this whilst living her life in the public eye in front of vast crowds and TV cameras. Producer Sarah Blunt

How significant is our hair when it comes to projecting an image of ourselves and how we feel? In the second of three programmes about body modification, poet Helen Mort talks to hair stylist Niamh Kavanagh about the role of hair in expressing our personality. Throughout her life Helen has changed the colour and style of her hair and also had her head shaved. She is fascinated by people’s responses to hair and what it says about them and us. Niamh has also experimented with her own hair as well as cutting and styling clients’ hair, which involves trust, empathy and skill. Producer Sarah Blunt

Tattooed poet Helen Mort talks to Tattooist Lou Hopper about “getting inked”. In the first of three programmes about body modifications, Helen explores the body as a canvas and tattoos as an art form. Why do people choose to decorate their skin with tattoos? How do they make the wearer feel? What responses do tattoos evoke ? Are tattoos a way of projecting our personality? What do visual modifications reveal about an individual? Producer Sarah Blunt

Our guest this week is a fell runner, climber and award-winning poet. When she's not teaching creative writing at Manchester Metropolitan University, Helen can be found in the fell, indulging her love of hill running. Having written a guide to running in the Lake District, .She talks about how running informs her creative process and why society is suspicious of women, and particularly mothers, who take risks. helenmort.com See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.

Diaries are one of our oldest literary traditions, conjuring questions of private confessions and public display. In this series of essays we explore five diarists of the past through the lens of the present. In these extraordinary times, when the shift between the domestic and the out-of-reach wider world is ever more pronounced, Radio 3 has commissioned five Essays on the theme of diaries – five new diaries written during the unprecedented period of recent weeks, reflecting on the present moment and reaching out to another historical literary diarist for aid and inspiration. 3. Helen Mort: More Than Enough Poet Helen Mort's daily exercise walks with her toddler echo the rooted explorations of Dorothy Wordsworth in the Lake District.

Helen Mort, former co-host of Two Min Stories, is the author of two collections of poetry, a novel (Black Car Burning) and a collection of short fiction (Exire). She is also a dramatist and an academic, and a regular BBC broadcaster. Emily Oldfield is a highly regarded young poet whose first pamphlet, Grit, was published by Poetry Salzburg in March 2020.

Helen Mort is a writer, trail runner and climber who lives in Sheffield. She teaches creative writing at Manchester Metropolitan University, and her published work includes poetry, fiction and non-fiction, with a particular interest in women and mountaineering. Her first poetry collection, Division Street (Chatto & Windus, 2013), was shortlisted for the Costa Prize and the T.S. Eliot Prize, and won the Fenton Aldeburgh First Collection Prize. In 2015, Helen was chosen as one of the Next Generation poets. Her first novel, Black Car Burning (Chatto & Windus, 2019), was longlisted for the Portico Prize and the Dylan Thomas Prize. Helen is the author of Lake District Trail Running (Vertebrate, 2016) and editor of Waymaking (Vertebrate, 2018); and she has written for Alpinist, Climb, the Guardian, the Independent and Radio 3. In 2017, she was a judge for the Man Booker International Prize and chair of judges for the Boardman Tasker Award for Mountain Literature. She was a judge for the 2019 Banff Mountain Book Prize. She has lived with a variety of dogs, but thinks a house is not a home without a whippet, which leads us to Helen's latest title Never Leave the Dog Behind which explores the relationship between people, dogs and the great outdoors. The book comprises interviews with dog owners and experiences with a variety of dogs as well as the author’s own observations as a runner, (initially nervous) dog owner and poet.We’re offering a unique opportunity to have a photo of you and your dog printed in Helen's latest narrative, Never Leave the Dog Behind: Our love of dogs and mountains. Visit our Kickstarter for more details.

Ian McMillan asks where poetry and philosophy meet - with guests Raymond Antrobus and Helen Mort.

Helen Mort is a busy woman. She is an award-winning poet and novelist, a runner and a climber. She has also recently become a mum which has transformed her perspective on living adventurously. She told me about being open to the possibilities of change in your life, and the weird way in which an expedition to Greenland can feel less daunting than staying in Sheffield at a gathering of other new parents.

You’ll probably know Alison Lapper. There used to be a huge marble statue of her in Trafalgar Square and it showed her 8 months pregnant, with no arms and short legs. That’s because Alison has a condition called phocomelia. This summer her son, Parys, died. He was 19, and had been struggling with mental health problems and drugs. Alison is an artist and she has an exhibition on right now. One of her pictures is of her son, but that wasn't the intention, she says, when she was painting it. It's International Human Rights Day. We're focusing on the women and girls in migrant camps in Greece, where conditions are dangerous and risky. Sexual harassment and gender-based violence are problems as well as food and water shortages and poor sanitation. Hillary Margolis of Human Rights Watch has been there recently. Poet and novelist Helen Mort has written a story called Weaning. It's part of an anthology called The Book of Sheffield. It's about a mother who stops breastfeeding and the impact it has on her mental health. It's also about feeling disconnected from the city of Sheffield as well as herself. Helen tells Jane how her own experience of weaning has inspired the story.

Our third episode explores monsters, outlaws and home invaders, as our host Eleanor Penny sits down with poets Helen Mort, Romalyn Ante and Tice Cin. Their mythic re-imaginings include the vampiric Fillipino Manananggal, the Turkish Cypriot fugitive Hasan Buli, and trespasser and porridge-thief Goldilocks. Find out more and catch up with Series One at:endoftheworldpodcast.com@goodbyeworldpod

Helen Mort's latest novel is Black Car Burning published by Chatto & Windus. Her website is http://www.helenmort.com She read Mountain and The Fear from No Map Could Show Them again published by Chatto and Windus. I read The Tremor of Silk and Rivelin Valley Vespers from A Night Sea Journey published by Authorhouse, The book by Sarah Wilson is First, We Make the Beast Beautiful published by Corgi 2019 a great read for anxious people and those who live with us! 

Bedtime Stories for the End of the World returns on Monday 16 September, bringing you another six episodes of poetry for our apocalyptic age. Each episode will feature brand new poetry from some of the best UK poets, including: Malika Booker, Andrew McMillan, Sabrina Mahfouz, Kei Miller, Helen Mort, Jack Underwood and many more. Subscribe to make sure you don't miss en episode. For more information visit endoftheworldpodcast.com, or contact us on Twitter or Instagram @goodbyeworldpod

Poet and novelist Helen Mort reads some of her work based in the universe of climbing including extracts from her recently-published novel, Black Car Burning, Well good.

Juliet Uzor tells us about winning this year's Great British Sewing Bee.What is the best way to care for a parent with dementia? We hear from Sarah Mitchell whose mother Wendy was diagnosed with early onset dementia at the age of 58. Sarah tells us how they've adapted their lives and relationship.A new Amnesty International report has found what it calls 'a shocking level' of unreported and acquitted rapes across the Nordic countries. Why? Jacqui Hunt the Director of Equality Now's European office and Helle Jacobsen a senior Advisor and Researcher at Amnesty Denmark, discuss.What makes the adolescent brain different and why is it that an easy child can become a challenging teenager? Sarah-Jayne Blackmore a Professor in Cognitive Neuroscience at University College London helps us understand.Why is ‘Shame' the emotion of now? Hetta Howes a lecturer in Medieval and Early Modern Literature at City University London, and Tiffany Watt-Smith a cultural historian discuss.Laura Lattimore and Rashida Hardy tell us about having severe hair loss and why wearing a wig is important to them. The poet Helen Mort on her first novel Black Car Burning about rock climbing, trust and polyamory.Presented by Jane Garvey Produced by Rabeka Nurmahomed Edited by Jane ThurlowInterviewed guest: Juliet Uzor Interviewed guest: Sarah Mitchell Interviewed guest: Jacqui Hunt Interviewed guest: Helle Jacobsen Interviewed guest: Sarah-Jayne Blackmore Interviewed guest: Hetta Howes Interviewed guest: Tiffany Watt-Smith Interviewed guest: Laura Lattimore Interviewed guest: Rashida Hardy Interviewed guest: Helen Mort

More in our series looking at what wigs mean to a range of different women. Yesterday we looked at the experience of women who'd lost their hair through cancer treatment. Today we look at why wigs can be so political for black women. Mikai McDermott is a blogger and hair stylist and specialises in wigs for women of colour. Maria Edaferhoro chooses to wear wigs and believes there can be a stigma against them in the black community and Michelle Annan-Baidoo owns a hair salon in East London.The Sheffield-born poet Helen Mort talks about writing her first novel ‘Black Car Burning' about women climbers, polyamory and trust. What is the best way to care for a parent with early on-set dementia? A few weeks ago we spoke to Wendy Mitchell who was diagnosed with young on-set dementia at just 58 years old. Today we hear from her daughter Sarah about how she helps support her mum and the techniques they use to make caring easier. A new report on children from low income UK families highlights their experience of hunger, shame and social exclusion because of lack of money and food. Rebecca O' Connell lead author of Living Hand to Mouth published by the Child Poverty Action Group describes the stories she heard from the 11-15 year olds in the studyPresenter Jane Garvey Producer Beverley PurcellGuest Rebecca O' Connell Guest Mikai McDermott Guest Maria Edaferhoro Guest Michelle Annan-Baidoo Guest Helen Mort Guest Sarah Mitchell

Anna Chilvers is currently working on her PhD in creative writing at the Manchester Writing School, aided by Two Minutes Stories' co-host Helen Mort. She is the author of two novels published by Blue Moose books: Tainted Love and Falling Through Clouds. ​ Poet Mark Pajak's pamphlet Spitting Distance was a Laureate's Choice publication for the Poetry Business. He has been a House Poet at the Manchester Writing School, and won first prize for poetry in the 2016 Bridport Prize.

Andrew Davies is renowned for turning literary classics into prime-time television drama, from Pride and Prejudice and Bleak House to War and Peace. He talks to Samira about his new BBC One series, a reworking of Victor Hugo's Les Misérables, explaining the appeal of the 19th Century epic novel and why the stage musical version of the book didn't influence his adaption at all. In the Bible, Matthew wrote about the Three Wise Men, Luke about the shepherds and the angels, and ever since, Christmas has provided inspiration for writers. John Milton wrote On the Morning of Christ's Nativity, Jane Austen has a Christmas scene in Persuasion, Ernest Hemingway wrote about Paris at Christmas and Helen Fielding, in Bridget Jones's Diary, has Bridget attending a terrible yuletide family gathering. Writer Matthew Sweet, critic Arifa Akbar and Professor Stephen Regan, who has traced the history of Christmas in English literature, discuss the different ways writers have treated Christmas in their work. Sheffield-based poet Helen Mort talks about the poetry of the festive season and reads her Christmas poem written especially for Front Row.Presenter Samira Ahmed Producer Harry Parker

It's 20 years this month since the death of Ted Hughes, we are still arguing about his legacy. In a new series of the Radio 3 Essay, leading poets bring a sharp eye to the poems themselves, reminding us why Hughes is regarded as one of the Twentieth Century's greatest writers, and exploring how the works match up to, inform and contradict what we know of the man. Ted Hughes is perhaps best known for his poems about creatures - for poems like ‘The Thought Fox', ‘Pike' and for books like 'Crow'. In today's essay Helen Mort thinks about what animals signify in Hughes' work and how they might connect to the way the poet writes about the tricky, mysterious lives of others, whether human or animal. Recorded before a live audience at the BBC's Contains Strong Language Festival in Hull. Written and read by Helen Mort Produced by Simon Richardson

Poet Benjamin Morris gives a tour of the contemporary British poetry from both the United Kingdom and Scotland. Originally aired on March 23rd 2018. Here's a full list of the poets and poems read: Norman MacCaig, “Summer Farm.” from Selected Poems, Chatto & Windus, 1997. Kathleen Jamie, “Basking Shark.” from The Tree House. Picador, 2004. John Glenday, “St. Orage.” from Grain. Picador, 2009. Jen Hadfield, “Paternoster.” from Nigh-No- Place. Bloodaxe Books, 2008 Ryan Van Winkle, “After the Service.” from The Good Dark. Penned in the Margins, 2015. Helen Mort, “Coffin Path.” from Division Street. Chatto & Windus, 2013. Jacob Polley, “The North-South Divide.” from The Brink. Picador, 2003. Tim Liardet, “The Vaults.” from The Blood Choir. Seren, 2006. Hannah Lowe. “Five Ways to Load a Dice.” from Chick. Bloodaxe Books, 2013. David Harsent, “Ballad.” from Night. Faber, 2011.

The poet Helen Mort and her friend Andrew walk from The Old Dungeon Ghyll - a famous hikers and climbers pub in Great Langdale - up to Raven Crag where they climb Middle Fell Buttress on a very wintery day at the end of July.

Poets Michael Symmons Roberts and Helen Mort and academic Stewart Mottram join Matthew Sweet in Hull to discuss the language of love and the politics underpinning Marvell's poem in a special recording for National Poetry Day. Readings are performed by Matt Sutton. Published posthumously in 1861, the poem has been seen as following traditions of carpe diem love poetry exhorting the female reader to seize the day and respond more quickly to the poet/lover but it has also been argued that the metaphors are ambiguous and the poem can be read as an ironic version of sexual seduction. Many of the phrases and ideas about time in the poem have inspired other authors and been re-used as book titles and lines in films including within A Matter of Life and Death, The Lovesong of J. Alfred Prufrock and the writing of Ursula K Le Guin. Recorded with an audience at the University of Hull as part of the BBC's festival Contains Strong Language. Producer: Fiona McLean.

September 28th is National Poetry Day 2017. Listen to Jess and Lucinda dive into poetry which explores this year's theme, Freedom, from the freedom of a lunch hour in Japan, to that of using two languages within one poem. We also hear from poets Marchant Barron, Beth Calverley and Rachel McCrum, whose work offer widely different takes on what it means to seek freedom. If you've been meaning to get back to reading poetry, this is the episode for you. With contributions from Marchant Barron, Beth Calverley and Rachel McCrum Hosted by Jessica Johannesson, with music by The Bookshop Band   Poems and collections mentioned in this episode:  ‘A Prison Evening' by Faiz Ahmed Faiz from Being Alive ed. Neil Astley  'Wild Geese' by Mary Oliver, from New and Selected Poems  'Tanglefoot' and 'Hear This', both by Marchant Barron 'A Lesson in Drawing' by Nazir Kabani  'The Tiger who came to Tea' by Beth Calverley Ode to Bob by Helen Mort, from No Map Could Show Them  ‘The Marunouchi Building' by Nakahara Chúya from The Penguin Book of Japanese Verse transl. by Geoffrey Bownas and Anthony Thwaite The Tijuana Book of the Dead by Luis Alberto Urrea  Vaginaland by Jen Campbell 'Last of the Late Great Gorilla-Suit Actors' by Patricia Lockwood from Motherland Fatherland Homelandsexuals 'My Underwear was Made of Iron' by Rachel McCrum, from The First Blast to Awaken Women Degenerate

Daniel Mays, the actor who came to prominence for his roles in Vera Drake, Line of Duty, Life on Mars and Mrs Biggs, discusses his new BBC drama Against The Law. He plays Peter Wildeblood, a man imprisoned for homosexual acts in the 1950s, who then went on to campaign for a change in the law. Queen Latifah and Jada Pinkett Smith star in Girls Trip, a film where four old friends reunite for a wild weekend away. It has had a strong opening weekend at the US box office, which the director Malcolm D Lee ascribes to 'black girl magic'. Dreda Say Mitchell gives her verdict. Asifa Lahore, the UK's first out Muslim drag queen, chooses Dana International's Eurovision-winning song Diva for our Queer Icons series.Helen Mort has been described by Carol Ann Duffy as 'among the brightest stars in the sparkling new constellation of British poets'. But she first came to prominence in 1998 as one of the winners of the Foyle Young Poets of the Year Award. Helen Mort tells Samira Ahmed why young people should enter the competition this year. Presenter Samira Ahmed Producer Kate Bullivant.

In the very first of two special Man Booker International Prize 2017 podcasts, we celebrate the 2017 shortlist that takes readers around the globe and to the frontier of translated fiction. First we take you behind the scenes at the party at Kensington Gardens in London, where the shortlist was announced live for the first time. Next host Joe Haddow delves into this year's shortlisted books with two members of the judging panel - Director of the Edinburgh International Book Festival and 2017 chair Nick Barley and award-winning poet Helen Mort. Finally we head to London Book Fair, which this year was focused on work from Poland. Joe catches up with Madrid-based American writer and translator Lawrence Schimel to discuss how translated fiction is doing in our market today. Join in the conversation @ManBookerPrize with #MBI2017 #FinestFiction

Clive Stafford Smith, lawyer and campaigner against miscarriages of justice, joins us in the studio to discuss his time defending death-row prisoners in Guantánamo and elsewhere, the "integrity" of the system, why torture doesn't work, and whether the age of mass incarceration might finally be drawing to a close. We end with Helen Mort reading her new poem, "Glasgow". Presented by Stig Abell and Thea Lenarduzzi. Discover more at www.the-tls.co.uk See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.

Derbyshire poet and climber Helen Mort visits Stanage Edge, famed for its millstone grit.

Helen Mort performs a new poem written for Durham Book Festival 2016 inspired by the history of boxing in the North East.

Helen Mort is one of the UK's most exciting young voices. She came into the SPL to talk about her second book No Maps Could Show Them (Chatto & Windus) and to read poems from the collection. During the course of the interview, she talks about female pioneers of mountaineering, the strange health risks men believed running posed women, and the historical characters she's drawn to writing about.

December 2014. A transcript of this conversation is available here: https://lunarpoetrypodcasts.files.wordpress.com/2017/05/interview-helen-mort-lpp-transcript-ep-03.pdf David Turner is in Sheffield talking to Helen Mort about her poetry, educational work, class and her neuroscience blog. This episode includes Helen reading two poems from her collection Division Street: "Stainless Stephen" - (00:18:31) "Other People's Dreams" - (00:43:02) www.twitter.com/Silent_Tongue www.twitter.com/HelenMort www.helenmort.com www.poetryonthebrain.blogspot.co.uk

Helen Mort talks to Maurice Riordan about writing and the problem of observation; Jeremy Deller's Battle of Orgreave and her poem ‘Scab'; writing on the run; neuroscience, Norman MacCaig, John Burnside and Paul Muldoon, and how writing her first novel is both similar to and different from writing poems. Helen is a five times winner of Foyle Young Poets of the Year. Her first collection, Division Street (Chatto & Windus) was shortlisted for the Costa Prize and the T.S. Eliot Prize and, in 2014, won the Fenton Aldeburgh Prize. She also reads her poem ‘Ablation'.

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Three of the best new poets in years were reading in the Bookshop. Helen Mort’s *[Division Street][1]* (Chatto) was shortlisted for the T.S. Eliot Prize (almost unheard of for a debut collection) and the Costa Prize; Liz Berry’s *[Black Country][2]* (Chatto) won the Forward Prize for Best First Collection; and Sarah Howe’s just-released *[Loop of Jade][3]* (Chatto) is shortlisted for the same award. United by a strong sense of place, any one of them on their own would be worth turning out for – on a rare triple-bill, presenting an evening of poetry and conversation, they’re unmissable. See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.

In episode two, we ask whether poetry can give us another way of looking at the election and can tell us more about ourselves than the latest the poll-figures. We talk to two of the UK’s brightest contemporary poets about how they take on the politics of today - talking immigration and feminism with Hollie McNish, and looking at how issues of economic policy and the environment get translated into the poetry of Helen Mort. If language is having a crisis in politics at the moment with spin-culture taking hold, we find poetic antidotes with Edith Hall, Professor of Classics at King’s College London, looking to historical examples of political language with both style and substance. And when it comes to creating social change, we ask what role poetry today plays in the debate… This podcast contains some themes which some listeners may find upsetting.

As actress Carey Mulligan makes her West End debut in David Hare's 1995 drama Skylight, she discusses playing opposite Bill Nighy and how she chooses film roles. A new exhibition, Making Colour at the National Gallery in London, charts and analyses the variety of raw materials used by artists across the centuries to provide colour in paintings and other works of art, Shahidha Bari reviews. 30 years ago this week, a protest at the Orgreave coking plant turned into the most notorious confrontation of the 1984-85 miners' strike. Artist Jeremy Deller, poet Helen Mort and playwright Beth Steel discuss why the events of June 18th 1984 proved such fertile ground artistic response. And following the news that Harrison Ford has injured his ankle on the set of Star Wars, Adrian Wootton discusses how film-makers work around cast injuries.

An interview with Helen Mort from the Sheffield Lyric festival of written and spoken word

With John Wilson. The Coen brothers discuss their latest film, Inside Llewyn Davis, which follows a young folk musician, played by Oscar Isaac, as he navigates the Greenwich Village folk scene of 1961 trying to make it as a solo artist. Ethan and Joel Coen, whose directorial repertoire includes No Country for Old Men and The Big Lebowski, explain how far the characters in their latest work are inspired by the real musical figures of this folk period, and the casting challenges for a film which features full live performances by its actors, who include Carey Mulligan, John Goodman and Justin Timberlake. Leonardo DiCaprio won a Golden Globe this week for his performance as real-life rogue trader Jordan Belfort in The Wolf Of Wall Street, directed by Martin Scorsese. Critic Catherine Bray delivers her verdict. The Pass is a topical new play about homosexuality and homophobia in football, centring on the complicated relationship between two Premier League players. John talks to its writer John Donnelly. The T S Eliot Prize for Poetry will be awarded this evening to the author of the best new collection of poetry published in the UK or Ireland. This year's shortlist includes 90-year-old Dannie Abse for his collection Speak, Old Parrot, 28-year-old Helen Mort for Division Street as well as Daljit Nagra for his re-telling of the Ramayana. John Wilson talks to the winner, live from the ceremony. Producer: Rebecca Armstrong.

From Daniel Knauf's eerily unsettling and nightmarish horror fable “Bye, Bye Blackbird” to “Flat Pack Pirate”, Sabrina Mahfouz's slick and chilling tale of domestic paranoia, there's something to chill even the hardened ghost lover. And if you want your shot of horror laced with a hint of violent realism, we have an exclusive extract from Sam Hawken's Tequila Sunset to see you through into the morning hours. There is also a short story from A. J. Kirby and an especially commissioned poem by Helen Mort. We are particularly excited about Giles Anderson's piece, "The Ghost in the (Fruit) Machine", which is his first fictional submission. The post Litro #119: Ghosts appeared first on Litro Magazine.