North and South by Helen Tookey

Helen Tookey (North and South) is a poet and writer based in Liverpool, where she teaches creative writing at Liverpool John Moores University. She has published two poetry collections with Carcanet Press, Missel-Child and City of Departures, and is currently working on a third. She is collaborating with writer and musician Martin Heslop on text and sound work developed from a residency in 2019 at the Elizabeth Bishop House in Great Village, Nova Scotia, and is also working on a creative non-fiction book about her engagement with the work of Malcolm Lowry and Elizabeth Bishop and, through them, with place and landscape.

Helen's work appears in Issue 7 of Hinterland. Click here to buy a copy.