Helen Farish

British poet (born 1962)

Helen Farish (born 1962 Cumbria) is a British poet.

Life

She received her B.A. from University of Durham, M.A. and Ph.D. from Oxford Brookes University.

She lectured in creative writing at Sheffield Hallam University.^[1]

She has been a Fellow at Hawthornden International Centre for Writers and was the first female Poet in Residence at the Wordsworth Trust (2004-5). She has also been a visiting lecturer at Sewanee University, and a visiting scholar at the University of New Hampshire.

Beginning 2007, she lectures full-time at Lancaster University, in the department of English and Creative Writing.^[2]

She now lives in Cumbria.

Awards

Intimates 2005 Forward best first collection, shortlist for the 2005 TS Eliot prize.

Works

Intimates. Cape Poetry. 2005. ISBN 978-0-224-07279-3.

Thesis

Sex, God and Grief in the Poetry of Sharon Olds and Louise Glück

References

^ "Sheffield Hallam University - Sheffield Hallam's writers". Archived from the original on 24 July 2011. Retrieved 30 May 2009.
^ "Archived copy". Archived from the original on 5 December 2009. Retrieved 30 May 2009.{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: archived copy as title (link)

External links

"Helen Farish's workshop", The Guardian, 21 December 2005
"Helen Farish", The Poetry Archive
"Helen Farish and Feminine Poetic Identity", Adrien Grafe, E-rea, 6.1.2008, Université de Paris
"forty-five: Helen Farish", 30 November 2008, fifty-two poets