Jim Carruth Introduces Helen Mort & Rebecca Perry, 17 March 2016 The Mitchell Library

Jim Carruth Introduces Helen Mort & Rebecca Perry
17th Mar 2016 • 7:30PM – 8:30PM
Mitchell Library, North St, Glasgow G3 7DN
Glasgow’s Poet Laureate, Jim Carruth, welcomes two distinctive new poetry voices to Aye Write!
Jim Carruth Introduces Helen Mort & Rebecca Perry
Glasgow’s Poet Laureate, Jim Carruth, welcomes two distinctive new poetry voices to Aye Write! Helen Mort was born in Sheffield in 1985. She is a 5 times winner of the Foyle Young Poets award. In 2014, she completed her Doctorate and her BlogSpot `Poetry on the Brain` was one of the Picador `Best Poetry Blogs` choices. Her latest collection Division Street was shortlisted for the Costa Book Awards and the T.S. Eliot Prize. Rebecca Perry was born in London. She graduated from Manchester’s Centre for New Writing in 2008. Her first book-length collection, Beauty/Beauty, a Poetry Book Society Recommendation, is shortlisted for the 2015 T.S. Eliot Prize. Presented in association with St Mungo’s Mirrorball .
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