About

Helen Farish won the Forward Prize for Best First Collection and has twice been short-listed for the T. S. Eliot prize. She has also received a Poetry Book Society Recommendation and been a Poetry Society Book of the Year.

She completed her BA (Hons) in English Language and Literature at Durham University and went on to gain an MA in Humanities (Distinction) at Oxford Brookes University, followed by a PhD in twentieth-century American poetry, also at Oxford Brookes University. She lectured in creative writing and literature at Sheffield Hallam University and Lancaster University.

Helen was Poet-in-Residence at the Wordsworth Trust, Grasmere, in 2004-05.

She now lives in Cumbria and is a regional tutor for the Poetry School
https://poetryschool.com/

Poetry collections:

• Intimates (Cape, 2005)
  
• Nocturnes at Nohant: The Decade of Chopin and Sand (Bloodaxe, 2012)
  
• The Dog of Memory (Bloodaxe, 2016)
  
• The Penny Dropping (Bloodaxe, 2024)

Forthcoming: Monet’s Broom (Bloodaxe, 2026)