Helen Mort – Sabotage

Festival Spoken Word

Verve Poetry Festival, 16-19th February 2017

March 25, 2017 Editor Amerah Saleh, Anna Freeman, Anthony Anaxagorou, Bernhard Christianssen, Bethany Slinn, Bohdan Piasecki, Charley Genever, Clive Birnie, Cynthia Miller, Daljit Nagra, Dean Atta, Deanna Rodger, Emma Wright, Fran Lock, Hannah Silva, Helen Mort, Hibaq Osman, Isobel Dixon, Jane Commane, Jess Green, Jonathan Davidson, Kareem Parkins-Brown, Katrina Naomi, Kim Moore, Luke Kennard, Mona Arshi, Nina Lewis, Raymond Antrobus, Richard O'Brien, Roz Goddard, Sabrina Mahfouz, Sarah Howe, Skye Hawkins, Spoken Word, Stuart Bartholomew, Susannah Dickie, Toby Campion, Vanessa Kisuule, Verve Poetry Festival, Waterstones

-Reviewed by Nina Lewis– I love poetry festivals, this new one promised a marked difference. One of the leading principles of

Collection Poetry

Cornrows and Cornfields by Celeste Doaks

December 23, 2015December 24, 2015 Becky Varley-Winter Caroline Davies, Celeste Doaks, Cornrows and Cornfields, Dorianne Laux, Helen Mort, Joseph Millar, Patricia Smith, Wrecking Ball Press

– Reviewed by Caroline Davies – The first collection from Celeste Doaks, Cornrows and Cornfields comes garlanded with praise from England’s Helen

Collection Poetry

The Ringmaster’s Apprentice by Oz Hardwick

December 15, 2014December 16, 2014 Editor Claire Trévien, Helen Mort, Oz Hardwick, Tom Lehrer, Valley Press

A Tripadvisor-style review In August we inaugurated our first Tripadvisor-style review with a six-handed review of John Clegg’s pamphlet. The

Anthology Poetry

Furies: a Poetry Anthology of Women Warriors ed. by Eve Lacey

October 26, 2014October 26, 2014 Editor Anja Konig, Claire Trévien, For Books' Sake, Furies, Helen Mort, Imtiaz Dharker, Malika Booker, Patience Aghabi, Rebecca Goss, Reeva Steenkamp, Susan Richardson

-Reviewed by Anja Konig– Acid attacks in Iran, Malala shot by the Taliban, abducted schoolgirls in Nigeria, Reeva Steenkamp dead

Anthology Collaboration Poetry

The Charnel House by Tom de Freston et al.

September 27, 2014October 17, 2014 Editor Abegail Morley, Bridegedoor Press, George Szirtes, Hayden Westfield-Bell, Helen Mort, Jenny Lewis, Kaddy Benyon, Lydia Macpherson, Pascale Petit, Samir Guglami, The Charnel House, Tom de Freston

-Reviewed by Hayden Westfield-Bell– The Charnel House is difficult to describe; Freston himself categorises it as a kind of ‘poetic

Festival Spoken Word

Well Versed – Stoke Newington Literary Festival, June 7th and 8th 2014

July 4, 2014July 13, 2014 websterpoet Amy Acre, Bobby Parker, Chimene Suleyman, Emma Jones, Hannah Lowe, Helen Mort, Jody Porter, Kayo Chingonyi, Lucy Parsons, Michelle Madsen, Morning Star, Niall O'Sullivan, Phill Jupitus, Porky the Poet, Salena Godden, Sam Berkson, Simon Munnery, Steve Pottinger, Stoke Newington Literary Fetival, The Captain of the Rant, Tim Wells, Well Versed

– reviewed by Lucy Parsons – The poetry of the people – an extravaganza of radical verse from the Morning

In conversation with Ira Lightman

December 17, 2013 Editor Alan M. Kent, Christian Ward, Claire Trévien, David R. Morgan, Durham Book Festival, Graham Nunn, Helen Mort, Hugo Williams, Ian Hamilton, Ira Lightman, John Cage, Kathryn Simmonds, Plagiarism, W.S. Graham

-In conversation with Claire Trévien- Ira Lightman makes public art around the UK, regularly appears on BBC Radio 3’s The

Magazine Online Magazine

Rising #58 and Poetry Weekly #1

July 22, 2013 Editor Claire Trévien, Helen Mort, Jennifer Edgecombe, Paul McMenemy, Phill Jupitus, Poetry Weekly, Rising, Rowena Knight, Stephen Waclawski, Tim Wells

-Reviewed by Jennifer Edgecombe– Poetry Weekly and Rising are two A5 poetry magazines. They look very similar with respect to

Clinic III (ed. Rachael Allen, Sam Buchan-Watts, Andrew Parkes, and Sean Roy Parker)

June 28, 2013 Editor Clinic, Egg box, Eileen Pun, Faye Lipson, Helen Mort, Henry King, Jonny Reid, Megan Levad, Rachel Allen, Sam Buchan-Watts, Sean Roy Parker

-Reviewed by Faye Lipson– Born out of the London-based multidisciplinary arts platform from which it derives its name, Clinic III

Astronaut #1

March 27, 2013 Editor Alana Tomlin, Astronaut Zine, Betty Doyle, Charlotte Henson, Helen Mort, John Clegg, O. Goldstein, Sophie Gainsley

-Reviewed by Alana Tomlin– Astronaut brings a brief assortment of poetry and short prose from, the title implies, ‘outer space’.