
A Poetry Book Society Recommendation 2016' When we climb aloneen cordee femininewe are magicians of the Alps -we make the routes we followdisappear' The poems of Helen Mort's second collection offer an unforgettable perspective on the heights we scale & the distances we run the routes we follow & 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 & petticoats to the modern British mountaineer Alison Hargreaves who died descending from the summit of K2 Distinctive & courageous these are poems of passion & precipices of edges & extremes No Map Could Show Them confirms Helen Mort's position as one of the finest young poets at work today