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Helen Mort

Helen Mort

Helen Mort is a poet and novelist. Her collection Division Street[ is published by Chatto & Windus and was shortlisted for the T.S. Eliot Prize. Her second collection ‘No Map Could Show Them’ was shortlisted for the Banff Mountain Literature Award. Her latest, The Illustrated Woman (2022) is shortlisted for the Forward Prize. She’s a Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature and teaches at Manchester Metropolitan University.
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squoil

To wear down a heel so that the boot or shoe is mis-shapen, as in “The heels on his boots were squoiled down.” from the Dictionary of Newfoundland English (University of Toronto Press, 1982).

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