Helen Dunmore

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Standard Name: Dunmore, Helen
Birth Name: Helen Dunmore
Married Name: Helen Charnley
HD first established herself as a poet, but became internationally known as a novelist when she won the Orange Prize in 1996. A prolific writer, she also had considerable success with books for children.
Colour photograph of Helen Dunmore opening the refurbished Henleaze Library in Redland, Bristol. in April 2008. She stands looking to her right with a couple of the audience visible behind her. Her pale blonde hair falls straight along her shoulders, and she wears a silver and zebra-print blouse.

Connections

Connections Author name Excerpt
Anthologization Elizabeth Jennings
The Leamington Poetry Society published a 4-page leaflet (plus cover) of EJ 's poems, titled with her name, in March 1987.
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Twelve years later the British Council published an audiocassette of poetry which features her...
Anthologization Hilary Mantel
With many others including Charlotte Bingham , Edwina Currie , Helen Dunmore , Nicci Gerrard , Wendy Holden , David Lodge , Val McDermid , Joanna Trollope , Lynne Truss , and Salley Vickers ,...
Anthologization Jo Shapcott
JS was, with Helen Dunmore , U. A. Fanthorpe , and Elizabeth Jennings , one of the four poets featured in no. 5 of the audio-cassette series The Poetry Quartets, issued today by the...
Anthologization Jo Shapcott
JS had already appeared with Helen Dunmore and Matthew Sweeney in 1997 in Penguin Modern Poets volume 12. Writing by her was included in three anthologies in the year 2001. Andrew Motion placed her work...

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Texts

Dunmore, Helen. Talking to the Dead. Little, Brown, 1996.
Dunmore, Helen. Talking to the Dead. Penguin, 1997.
Dunmore, Helen. The Apple Fall. Bloodaxe Books, 1983.
Dunmore, Helen. The Betrayal. Fig Tree, 2010.
Dunmore, Helen. The Greatcoat. Hammer Books, 2012.
Dunmore, Helen. The Lie. Cornerstone Hutchinson, 2014.
Clanchy, Kate et al. “The Lyrics”. Magma, Vol.
13
, poetrymagazines.org.uk, pp. 11-18.
Dunmore, Helen. The Malarkey. Bloodaxe Books, 2012.
Dunmore, Helen. “The Mironov Legacy”. BBC Radio Four.
Dunmore, Helen. The Raw Garden. Bloodaxe Books, 1988.
Dunmore, Helen. The Sea Skater. Bloodaxe Books, 1986.
Dunmore, Helen. The Siege. Viking, 2001.
Dunmore, Helen. The Siege. Quality Paperbacks Direct, 2001.
Dunmore, Helen. The Tide Knot. HarperCollins, 2007.
Dunmore, Helen. With Your Crooked Heart. Viking, 1999.
Dunmore, Helen. Your Blue-Eyed Boy. Viking, 1998.
Dunmore, Helen. Zennor in Darkness. Viking-Penguin, 1993.