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Helen Ivory

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Helen Ivory(born 1969) is an English poet, artist, tutor, and editor.

Career[edit]

Ivory is a poet and visual artist. Her fifth Bloodaxe Books collection isThe Anatomical Venus( 2019), which centres on women and otherness. She has co-edited withGeorge SzirtesIn Their Own Words: Contemporary Poets on their PoetrySalt 2012. She edits the webzine Ink Sweat and Tears and teaches online forUEA/National Centre for Writingonline creative writing. In 2020 she became aVersopolispoet and has work translated into Ukrainian, Polish, Spanish, Croatian and Greek.

Fool’s World,a collaborative Tarot with the artist Tom de Freston (Gatehouse Press), won the 2016 Saboteur Best Collaborative Work award. A collection of collage/mixed-media poems entitledHear What the Moon Told Mewas published in 2016 by Knives Forks and Spoons Press.

In early 2019, SurVison published a chapbook of predominantly surrealist poems titledMaps of the Abandoned City.Reviewing it in London Grip magazine, Rosie Jackson notedthe rare skill Ivory has to make her surrealism float into a world where politics – particularly sexual politics – are still pertinent.[1]

The Anatomical Venuswon the East Anglian Writers 'By the Cover' Award at the East Anglian Book Awards. Reviewing for Storgy, Rachael Smart writes: "This collection is a stunningly curated linguistic exhibition on the historical abuse of women. Enticing and yet flinching, this disquieting house of dolls makes abuse seen and urges us to revaluate [sic] why women are where they are now, and it does so with an eerie and unforgettable beauty. "[2]

In 2019, Ivory was named as one of the EDP's 100 Most Inspiring Women. In 2023 MadHat Press published herWunderkammer: New and SelectedPoems in the US. 

In 2024 she received a Cholmondeley Award from the Society of Authors, an award recognising the achievement and distinction of individual poets.

Awards[edit]

In 1999, Ivory won anEric Gregory Awardfrom the Society of Authors.[3]

In 2024 she received aCholmondeley Awardfrom the Society of Authors, an award recognising the achievement and distinction of individual poets.

Personal life[edit]

Ivory was born inLutonbut has lived inNorwichsince 1990. She is married to the poet and photographer Martin Figura.

Works[edit]

Poetry collections[edit]

  • The Double Life of Clocks(Bloodaxe Books,2002)
  • The Dog in the Sky(Bloodaxe Books, 2006)
  • The Breakfast Machine(Bloodaxe Books, 2010)
  • Waiting for Bluebeard(Bloodaxe Books, 2013)
  • Hear What the Moon Told Me(Knives Forks and Spoons Press, 2015)
  • Maps of the Abandoned City(SurVision Press)[1]Archived30 August 2019 at theWayback Machine(2019)
  • The Anatomical Venus(Bloodaxe Books, 2019)
  • Wunderkammer: New and Selected Poems (MadHat Press, US, 2023)https://madhat-press /pages/helen-ivory

Collaborations[edit]

  • Fool's World,with Tom de Freston (Gatehouse Press, 2015)

As editor[edit]

  • In Their Own Words: Contemporary Poets on Their Poetry,co-edited with George Szirtes (Salt Publishing, 2012)

References[edit]

  1. ^London Grip Poetry Review – Helen Ivory
  2. ^Smart, Rachael (21 January 2020)."The Anatomical Venus by Helen Ivory".Storgy Magazine.Retrieved28 June2020.
  3. ^The Eric Gregory Trust Fund Awards: Past WinnersArchived26 July 2014 at theWayback Machine

External links[edit]

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