Helen Farish

Helen Farish (born 1962) 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.

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.

She now lives in Cumbria.

Awards Intimates 2005 Forward Prize for Best First Collection, shortlist for the 2005 T. S. Eliot Prize. The Penny Dropping 2024, shortlist for the 2024 T.S. Eliot Prize.

Works

Collections

A Winter Garland (2006) Nocturnes at Nohant: The Decade of Chopin and Sand (2012) The Dog of Memory (2016) The Penny Dropping (2024)

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