Helena Nelson (born 1953) is a poet, critic, publisher and the founding editor of HappenStance Press.
[4] Her first full collection, Starlight on Water, was published in 2003 by The Rialto Press and was a joint winner of the Jerwood Aldeburgh Prize.
[10] In 2004 she took part in One Thousand Lines, the first schools tour by The Poetry Trust, alongside Matt Harvey and Neil Rollinson.
[12] She was an invited guest and speaker at the 2016 Scottish Women's Poetry Symposium organised by the University of Edinburgh.
Nelson's thoughtful take caused the writer & poet Kei Miller to riff on this theme in his follow-up article in 2014, Poetry in the Age of Hypermedia.
[14] In his essay, Miller expands the discussion further by examining the role hypermedia (Tweets, Facebook posts, online reviews etc.)