Books Books
Category: Ebooks, Fiction, Short Stories
Number of pages: 288
ISBN: 9781854115126
Publication date: March 2, 2010
Price: £7.99
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Category: Ebooks, Fiction, Short Stories
Number of pages: 288
ISBN: 9781854116369
Publication date: March 2, 2010
Price: £6.39
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WINNER OF THE EDGEHILL SHORT STORY PRIZE 2011
From the heat of Africa to the warmth of France or the snowbound dales of northern England, this is an assured and absorbing collection. Including the Bridport prize-winning story ‘The Prince’, Touch spans twenty years of short-story writing from author and poet Graham Mort.
From a young child adrift on an ice-filled lake to an ageing farmer facing life alone, the twenty-one stories display a deep sensitivity to both the natural world and to human relationships. In skilfully crafted prose, vivid with detail, Mort examines the strength and fragility of life and the ties that hold us within it.
‘I chose ‘The Prince’… because the writing is word-perfect… with the story quietly remarking on how something out of the ordinary both does and doesn’t affect daily life. In particular, I was enchanted by deft descriptions of nature…’ – Novelist and Bridport judge Tracy Chevalier
Graham Mort
Graham Mort has had a lengthy career as a freelance writer and artist in education, specialising in innovative combined arts projects. He has taught writing courses for the Arvon Foundation and Taliesin Trust and was director of studies for the Open College of the Arts, extending distance learning though new technology. He is currently professor of Creative Writing and Transcultural Literature, at Lancaster University where he directs the Centre for Transcultural Writing and Research. He has worked extensively on literature development projects in Africa for the British Council and for the University of Soran in Kurdistan. Amongst his many awards are the Edge Hill University Short Story Prize 2011, the Bridport Prize for the short story collection Touch (Seren 2010), Cheltenham Poetry Competition first prize (twice), a major Eric Gregory Award, two Duncan Lawrie prizes in the Arvon Foundation International Poetry competition and a Poetry Book Society recommendation. He released a book of poems, Cusp, published by Seren in 2011. His latest short story collection, Terroir (Seren), was published in 2015. His latest poetry collection, Black Shiver Moss, was published in June 2017.
