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https://archives.whyte.org/en/permalink/catalogue25489
Medium
Library - Book (including soft-cover and pamphlets)
Published Date
2016
Author
Mort, Helen
Publisher
London : Chatto & Windus
Call Number
05.1 M84n
Author
Mort, Helen
Publisher
London : Chatto & Windus
Published Date
2016
Physical Description
70 pages ; 22 cm
Medium
Library - Book (including soft-cover and pamphlets)
Subjects
Women
Poetry
Women's History
Travel
Adventure
Mountaineering
Climbing
Abstract
A Poetry Book Society Recommendation 2016. 'When we climb alone en cordee feminine, we are magicians of the Alps - we make the routes we follow disappear'. The poems of Helen Mort's second collection offer an unforgettable perspective on the heights we scale and the distances we run, the routes we follow and the paths we make for ourselves. Here are odes to the women who dared to break new ground - from Miss Jemima Morrell, a young Victorian woman from Yorkshire who hiked the Swiss Peaks in her skirts and petticoats, to the modern British mountaineer Alison Hargreaves, who died descending from the summit of K2. Distinctive and courageous, these are poems of passion and precipices, of edges and extremes. No Map Could Show Them confirms Helen Mort's position as one of the finest young poets at work today.
Contents
An Easy Day for a Lady ; How to Dress ; Miss Jemima's Swiss Journal ; Ode to Bob ; Height ; The Fear ; Scale ; Beryl the Peril ; My Diet ; Difficult ; The Old Dungeon Ghyll ; Hill ; Black Rocks ; Descent ; Prayer ; Kiss ; Solo ; Nordwand ; Home ; At Night ; Above Cromford ; Route ; Dear Alison ; Engineer ; Lethal Roy ; Bloodhound ; Skirt ; Rachel in Attercliffe ; King's Cross ; Ink ; What Will Happen ; Ablation ; Hathersage ; Kalymnos ; Loutro ; Alport Castles ; Eagle Owl ; Royal Mile ; Kinder Scout ; Murmuration ; Big Lil ; Lil's dream ; What the papers said ; Lil's answer ; Lil's last word ; Tom Hulatt's Mile ; Heinrich Harrer's Motorbike ; How Much Can You Carry? ; Everest ; Oxygen ; Beck Weathers ; Sherpa ; Lene Gamelgaard ; First ; Rope
ISBN
9781784740641
Accession Number
P2022.01
Call Number
05.1 M84n
Collection
Archives Library
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https://archives.whyte.org/en/permalink/catalogue15355
Medium
Library - Book (including soft-cover and pamphlets)
Published Date
2016
Author
Mort, Helen
Publisher
London : Chatto & Windus
Call Number
P M67
Author
Mort, Helen
Publisher
London : Chatto & Windus
Published Date
2016
Physical Description
70 pages
Medium
Library - Book (including soft-cover and pamphlets)
Subjects
Mountaineers, Women
Poetry
ISBN
9781784740641
Accession Number
AC633
Call Number
P M67
Collection
Alpine Club of Canada Library
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