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"A stone is lobbed in '84, hangs like a star over Orgreave. Welcome to Sheffield. Border-land, our town of miracles..." -Scab

From the clash between striking miners and police to the delicate conflicts in personal relationships, Helen Mort's stunning debut is marked by distance and division. Named for a street in Sheffield, this is a collection that cherishes specificity: the particularity of names; the reflections the world throws back at us; the precise moment of a realization. Distinctive and assured, these poems show us how, at the site of conflict, a moment of creation...

'Clear, accessible wise advice for modern minds.' Matt Haig'A Manual for Being Human is the motherlode, enlightening on why you might feel and behave how you do.' The Times'A truly wonderful, warm and wise one-stop shop for any inquisitive human. Packed full of prompts, practical tips and pep talks that will guide you through any situation.' Emma Gannon'There is a damn good reason why people are struggling. We are not raised to understand ourselves.

In fact, we are raised misunderstanding ourselves and fearing the very thing that makes us,...

A series of spectacular scandals profoundly disturbed London life during the 1950s in ways that had major national consequences. High and low society collided in a city of social and sexual extremes. Patrician men-about-town, young independent women, go-ahead entrepreneurs, Westminster politicians, queer men, and West Indian newcomers played a conspicuous part in dramatic encounters that signaled a new phase of post-Victorian sexual morality.

These dramas of pleasure and danger occurred not only in the glamorous and shady entertainment spaces of the West End but also in Whitehall, as...

"Mort is a fireball. . . . Personal, political, and passionate, Mort's poetry will surely sustain many reading audiences. Highly recommended.""Library Journal"

"A one-of-a-kind work of passion and insight.""Midwest Book Review"

"Mort's styletough and terse almost to the point of aphorismrecalls the great Polish poets Czeslaw Milosz and Wislawa Szymborska.""Los Angeles Times"

Valzhyna Mort is a dynamic Belarusian poet, and "Collected Body" is her first collection composed in English. Whether writing about sex, relatives, violence, or fish markets as opera, Mort insists...