Helen Farish

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[]

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