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Verse Matters harnesses the power of everyday stories, highlighting the strength and inspiration that comes from speaking out proudly in unsettled times. This anthology of poems and prose, edited by award-winning Sheffield-based writers Helen Mort and Rachel Bower, brings a diverse range of voices to the fore, from celebrated contemporary poets like Malika Booker, Liz Berry and Hollie McNish to first-time published writers from home and abroad. What brings them together is the extraordinary, ordinary tales they tell each other, and their determination to be heard.

Rachel Bower is a Leverhulme Research Fellow at the University of Leeds, and is the founder of Verse Matters, a monthly arts night in Sheffield. Her book Epistolarity and World Literature will be published by Palgrave in September 2017.
Helen Mort is a poet and fiction writer born in Sheffield, and a lecturer in the Manchester Writing School. She is the author of two poetry collections, Division Street (2013) and No Map Could Show Them (2016), both published by Chatto & Windus.