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
- ^ "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.
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