Helen Dunmore
Helen Dunmore
Helen Dunmoreis a British poet, novelist and children's writer. Educated at the University of York, she now lives in Bristol. Dunmore is a Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature. Some of her children's books are now included in reading schemes for use in schools...
ProfessionPoet
Date of Birth12 December 1952
chapters happening headed light poem shining stage
Many chapters are headed by poem quotations. These epigraphs are another way of shining light on what is happening at this stage of the novel.
rhythm search voice
You have to search for the voice of each character: the things that he or she could or could not have said, the distinctive rhythm of the voice.
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Reread, rewrite, reread, rewrite. If it still doesn’t work, throw it away.
magazines firsts entering
However, I began to submit poems to British magazines, and some were accepted. It was a great moment to see my first poems published. It felt like entering a tradition.