She is a 5 times winner of the Foyle Young Poets award, she received an Eric Gregory Award from The Society of Authors in 2007 and won the Manchester Poetry Prize Young Writer Prize in 2008.[1] In 2010, she became the youngest ever poet in residence at The Wordsworth Trust, Grasmere. She is the new Derbyshire Poet Laureate. In 2014, Helen Mort won the Fenton Aldeburgh First Collection Prize for "Division Street" which was also shortlisted for the Costa Book Awards and the T.S. Eliot Prize. Don't let that horse eat that violin - Lawrence Ferlinghetti