STEPMOTHER

Helen Mort (Autor)

Buch | Softcover

96 Seiten

2026
Chatto & Windus (Verlag)
9781784746445 (ISBN)

Infos

When a new relationship casts her in the unforeseen role of stepmother, prizewinning poet Helen Mort embarks on a personal quest to understand this most maligned of female archetypes.

'She already has a mum. To speak would have seemed like a disavowal, a distancing. To stay silent meant taking something which was not yours.

So of course you said nothing. You took it.'

With compelling candour and emotional insight, these poems are unforgettable dispatches from the shifting terrain that is the modern family. Alongside the poet’s own journey, Stepmother revisits with a fresh and questioning eye stepmothers in fairytale, film, and our culture’s darkest corners of fantasy.

Mort’s writing interweaves ravishing fragments of lyric essay with gothic flights into verse that draw us deep into the woods of upon-a-time, and back, powerfully, into the now. Groundbreaking and transformative, tender and uncompromising, Stepmother has much to teach us about female power and its perennial threat; about our openness to change, and the surprising shapes love can take.

Autor

Helen Mort has published three collections of poetry: Division Street (2013), winner of the Fenton Aldeburgh First Collection Prize, No Map Could Show Them (2016) and The Illustrated Woman (2022). Her poetry has been shortlisted for the Forward, T. S. Eliot and Costa Prizes. She has written a novel, Black Car Burning (2019) and a short story collection, Exire (2019). Her creative non-fiction includes A Line Above The Sky (2022), winner of the Boardman Tasker Award, and Ethel (2024). She is a Professor in Creative Writing at Manchester Metropolitan University and lives in Sheffield.

Produkt-Details

• Erscheint lt. Verlag: 2.7.2026
• Verlagsort: London
• Sprache: englisch
• Maße: 135 x 216 mm
• Gewicht: 300 g
• Themenwelt: Literatur ► Lyrik / Dramatik ► Lyrik / Gedichte
• ISBN-13: 9781784746445 / 9781784746445
• Zustand: Neuware