Caroline Bird & Helen Mort
Tuesday 2 August 2022, 11:02a.m. · 72 minutes![](https://www.londonreviewbookshop.co.uk/storage/300_filter/images/3/1/2/6/3816213-6-eng-GB/podcats.png 300w, https://www.londonreviewbookshop.co.uk/storage/400_filter/images/3/1/2/6/3816213-6-eng-GB/podcats.png 400w, https://www.londonreviewbookshop.co.uk/storage/800_filter/images/3/1/2/6/3816213-6-eng-GB/podcats.png 800w, https://www.londonreviewbookshop.co.uk/storage/1200_filter/images/3/1/2/6/3816213-6-eng-GB/podcats.png 1200w)
Helen Mort’s latest collection, The Illustrated Woman, has just been shortlisted for the Forward Prize, the latest accolade in what has been an incredibly productive year: 2022 has also seen the publication of her memoir of walking and motherhood, A Line above the Sky, and a collaborative lyric essay (with Kate Fletcher), Outfitting, exploring fashion and wild ecology.
Caroline Bird’s latest book is Rookie, a long-awaited selection gathering material from her seven Carcanet collections – including The Air Year, which won the Forward Prize in 2020. She is also a playwright, and was an official poet for the London Olympics in 2012.
Mort and Bird were in conversation, and read from their work, in this electric double-header.