I reviewed poetry for Stand and Poetry Review and later for The Observer, and subsequently reviewed fiction for The Observer, The Times and The Guardian. This experience of working in many different countries and cultures has been very important to my work. I began to travel a great deal within the UK and around the world, for poetry tours and writing residences. I also completed two novels fortunately neither survives, and it was more than ten years before I wrote another novel.ĭuring this time I published several collections of poems, and wrote some of the short stories which were later collected in Love of Fat Men. I studied English at the University of York, and after graduation taught English as a foreign language in Finland.Īt around this time I began to write the poems which formed my first poetry collection, The Apple Fall, and to publish these in magazines. I began by listening to and learning by heart all kinds of rhymes and hymns and ballads, and then went on to make up my own poems, using the forms I’d heard. Poetry was very important to me from childhood. You also come to understand very early that stories hold quite different meanings for different listeners, and can be recast from many viewpoints. In a large family you hear a great many stories. My father was the eldest of twelve, and this extended family has no doubt had a strong influence on my life, as have my own children. 'Ingo is an intoxicating adventure… Wonderful, evocative storytelling.I was born in December 1952, in Yorkshire, the second of four children. 'A remarkable fantasy… It's a haunting, beautifully written book which creates a totally believable parallel world.' Northern Echo. 'Helen Dunmore is an exceptional and versatile writer and she writes with a restrained, sensual grace.' Observer. 'Helen Dunmore may have a few drowned readers on her conscience, so enticing and believable is the underwater world she creates in Ingo.' Telegraph.
'The electric thrill of swimming with dolphins, of racing along currents, and of leaving the world of reason and caution behind are described with glorious intensity.' Amanda Craig, The Times. 'Ingo has a haunting, dangerous beauty all of its own.' Philip Ardagh, Guardian. ”'This is a wonderful fantasy story…” - Jan Winter, Inis ”'Like the ocean itself, this book is deep and strange and marvellous.” - Nial MacMonagle, The Irish Times
”'Dunmore's graceful style is what makes the unbelievable believable…” - The Independent on Sunday 'Intensely compelling… gorgeous.' Amanda Craig, The Times.
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