Books
Presenting my three poetry collections, with the latest, The Dog of Memory, published on 29th September 2016.
The Dog of Memory
The dog of memory, an animal more often unbiddable and capricious than it is comforting and predictable, roams the landscapes of its choice: not only place, Helen Farish’s native Cumberland and further afield – mornings in Sicily, night skies in Athens – and people…
Nocturnes at Nohant
It’s December 1836, Paris. Chopin is living on the fashionable rue de la Chaussée d’Antin and the novelist George Sand on the rue Lafitte. But falling in love with Sand also meant falling in love with her ancestral home, Nohant, a manor house set deep in the Berry countryside…
Intimates
Provocative and tender, passionate yet wary, these highly-charged poems testify to the complex nature of relationships with lovers, with family and with the self. Attuned to the expression of a female erotic, the poems speak openly about the emotional and the sexual…