Join us on 22nd September for a conversation between two talented poets, Helen Mort and Kim Moore.
Helen will be speaking about her newest release Stepmother, a bold and inventive prose-poetry collection inspired by a new relationship which cast her in the role of stepmother. Blending verse and personal essay, fairytales with stories of modern blended family, the book is a playful observation of an often-neglected dimension of female experience. Helen will be in conversation with Kim Moore, whose latest collection The House of Broken Things is an unflinching exploration of motherhood; in Kim's poetry, motherhood becomes a spell, a terrible power, an intelligence, a transformative force laden with complexity and ambivalence.
Bios:
Helen Mort lives in Sheffield. She is the author of four poetry collections with Chatto & Windus and her work has been shortlisted for the Forward Prize and the T.S. Eliot Prize. Other publications include a novel, 'Black Car Burning' and a memoir about motherhood and mountaineering, 'A Line Above The Sky', which won the Boardman Tasker Prize for mountain literature. She is a Professor of Creative Writing at Manchester Metropolitan and a Fellow of the RSL.
Kim Moore’s third poetry collection The House of Broken Things was published by Corsair in May 2026. Her second collection All the Men I Never Married (Seren, 2021) won the 2022 Forward Prize for Best Collection. Her first collection The Art of Falling (Seren 2015) won the Geoffrey Faber Memorial Prize. She also writes non-fiction, publishing What the Trumpet Taught Me (Smith/Doorstop, 2022) and Are You Judging Me Yet? Poetry and Everyday Sexism (Seren, 2023). She is a Senior Lecturer in Creative Writing at Manchester Metropolitan University and Deputy Programme Leader of the MA and MFA in Creative Writing.
Event rundown:
6pm: Doors open. There'll be enough unreserved seating for everyone, so come grab one and make yourself comfortable.
6:30pm: We'll begin the conversation.
7.15pm: Open up for audience questions.
7:30pm: Helen and Kim will be available to sign copies of their book, the shop will remain open for browsing and chatting.
Juno Books is a very small venue, and we will do our best to meet particular requirements. Accessibility information can be found here.
If you have any accessibility requirements or questions please email us at hello@junobooks.co.uk