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
External links
- "Helen Farish's workshop", The Guardian, 21 December 2005
- "Helen Farish", The Poetry Archive[permanent dead link]
- "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
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Lancaster University
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- Chancellor: Alan Milburn
- Vice-Chancellor: Andy Schofield
- Academics
- Alumni
- Vice-Chancellor of the County Palatine of Lancaster
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