Helen Mort

  • Deepfake Abuse

    Imagine someone was to take images of you from the internet – innocent photgraphs of you taking part in everyday activities, splice them with pornographic and violent images and share them on the web. What would you do when you found out? Go to the police? What if I said this wasn’t an illegal activity…

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  • Medusa, Helen Mort

    I said my first reviews would be of novels written by women. That was until I saw Medusa, poet Helen Mort’s first full length theatre piece, at The Carriageworks in Leeds on Halloween night. Having long been an admirer of Helen’s, I knew the writing would be accomplished but was interested to see how she would…

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  • Top Ten Poetry Collections Read or Re-read in 2015

    I know I’m not alone in producing a list of favourite contemporary poetry collections and pamphlets read or re-read in 2015 but I’m hoping this will appeal to some readers nevertheless.  It is by no means definitive and, I am, with some sadness, leaving out many others that are more than worthy of a place…

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  • ‘Passionate Words On The Wing’

    ‘Moving honest films’.  ‘Loved the variety and the uniqueness of each voice and the imagery in films, ‘Nice to have lots of different atmospheres created in a night.’  ‘The energy, passion and enthusiasm of the poets was so exciting.’ These were just some of the comments collected at the ‘Words in Motion’ events in Bristol…

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