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OverviewDrawing on powerful and universal themes, The Penny Dropping traces the journey of a relationship from first meeting to eventual break-up. Distance and maturity give retrospective access to moments of revelation which went fatally unacknowledged or unheeded at the time and which now return with an insistence impossible to ignore. But if the penny drops years too late, these poems are their own implicit argument for the value of revisiting our pasts if only in order to acquire a fuller, more complete presence in the now. Hovering over the collection is Eliot’s final question in The Waste Land: ‘Shall I at least set my lands in order?’ And as Helen Farish applies herself to the task, her unflinching yet compassionate voice has never been more in evidence. From the elation of the opening ‘Things We Loved’ to the acceptance and humour of ‘Of All My Losses’, much is at stake on every page. Full Product DetailsAuthor: Helen FarishPublisher: Bloodaxe Books Ltd Imprint: Bloodaxe Books Ltd Edition: Paperback original Dimensions: Width: 15.60cm , Height: 0.80cm , Length: 23.40cm ISBN: 9781852249960ISBN 10: 185224996 Pages: 80 Publication Date: 25 April 2024 Audience: General/trade , General Format: Paperback Publisher's Status: Active Availability: In Print  This item will be ordered in for you from one of our suppliers. Upon receipt, we will promptly dispatch it out to you. For in store availability, please contact us. Table of Contents9 Things We Loved 10 In the Balance 11 Taste of Home 12 ‘The Eve of St Agnes’ 13 Exposure 14 The Innocence of Pronouns 15 Mozart’s 233rd Birthday 16 Premonition 17 The Sirocco 18 Qui e Li 19 The Halcyon Days 20 Snow on the Road to Naoussa 21 Christ Has Risen! He Has Risen Indeed! 22 Day of Miracles 23 Filling Station, Crete 24 P 25 May Day 26 From the Album 27 Burning 28 Legacy 29 The Right Thing 30 Valentine’s Day 31 Flowers, Baguettes, Fromage, Wine 32 ‘Pretty Woman’ 33 A Hundred Days 34 That Route 35 The Butcher’s Boy 36 The Candle Snuffer 37 The Penny Dropping 38 In Seville That Spring 39 Scapegoat 40 That Postcard You Sent from Crete 41 On Approval 42 My Exit 43 Thanking the Universe 45 Fairytale 46 The Waste Land 47 Original You 48 No Point Now 50 Triggers 51 Pasta alla Gorgonzola 52 The Shaman Says 53 How Brilliant Is That? 54 Anniversary 55 Red Circle 56 Hero 57 The Joke 58 Films We Saw at The Phoenix 59 Aftermath 60 Beauty Spot 62 Bringing Things Forward 63 That Selige Sehnsucht Feeling 64 Notes & AcknowledgementsReviewsThe Penny Dropping, Helen Farish’s verse-sequence about a love relationship, could be called a page-turner if it weren’t for the fact that every page is a lyric poem of such compulsion that it unfailingly and hauntingly detains the reader’s attention. As a whole, it has all the coherence of a novel; but there is so much more to this beautifully realised lyric collection of the kind that she is a recognised master of. It is a masterpiece in both forms to a very unusual degree. -- Bernard O'Donoghue This book is Farish’s third – her debut won the Forward Prize for First Collection – and it is a confident performance. Farish’s poems have balance, and a smiling stride; they take their time (and seldom too much)…. The Dog of Memory is an intriguing offering from Helen Farish, evidence above all of a poet… working out what to do with the strange and beautiful things laid at her feet by her own capacity for recall. -- Leaf Arbuthnot * Times Literary Supplement * Her locations are as varied as you’d expect from a well-travelled, sharp-eyed twenty-first century poet, but her native Cumbria is the source she constantly returns to, slowing the tempo to savour its place-names and define its subtle colours… A rare combination of elegiac feeling, humour, and earthy reminiscence characterises Farish’s poems. -- Carol Rumens * The Poetry Review [on The Dog of Memory] * Helen Farish knows intimately who she is and her beautiful poems capture the intense sadness of memories recalled as the years pass. The poems are wonderfully, closely crafted. She is possessed by memory, but it is a memory that is both painful and illuminating. They are poems which are deeply felt, and though they read as though they draw intensely on her own life, their power to move comes from their reticence, from what is not said, but is deeply understood and quietly acknowledged. -- Steve Matthews * Cumberland News [on The Dog of Memory] * This book is Farish’s third – her debut won the Forward Prize for First Collection – and it is a confident performance. Farish’s poems have balance, and a smiling stride; they take their time (and seldom too much)…. The Dog of Memory is an intriguing offering from Helen Farish, evidence above all of a poet… working out what to do with the strange and beautiful things laid at her feet by her own capacity for recall. -- Leaf Arbuthnot * Times Literary Supplement * The Penny Dropping, Helen Farish’s verse-sequence about a love relationship, could be called a page-turner if it weren’t for the fact that every page is a lyric poem of such compulsion that it unfailingly and hauntingly detains the reader’s attention. As a whole, it has all the coherence of a novel; but there is so much more to this beautifully realised lyric collection of the kind that she is a recognised master of. It is a masterpiece in both forms to a very unusual degree. -- Bernard O'Donoghue Her locations are as varied as you’d expect from a well-travelled, sharp-eyed twenty-first century poet, but her native Cumbria is the source she constantly returns to, slowing the tempo to savour its place-names and define its subtle colours… A rare combination of elegiac feeling, humour, and earthy reminiscence characterises Farish’s poems. -- Carol Rumens * The Poetry Review [on The Dog of Memory] * Helen Farish knows intimately who she is and her beautiful poems capture the intense sadness of memories recalled as the years pass. The poems are wonderfully, closely crafted. She is possessed by memory, but it is a memory that is both painful and illuminating. They are poems which are deeply felt, and though they read as though they draw intensely on her own life, their power to move comes from their reticence, from what is not said, but is deeply understood and quietly acknowledged. -- Steve Matthews * Cumberland News [on The Dog of Memory] * This book is Farish’s third – her debut won the Forward Prize for First Collection – and it is a confident performance. Farish’s poems have balance, and a smiling stride; they take their time (and seldom too much)…. The Dog of Memory is an intriguing offering from Helen Farish, evidence above all of a poet… working out what to do with the strange and beautiful things laid at her feet by her own capacity for recall. -- Leaf Arbuthnot * Times Literary Supplement * Her locations are as varied as you’d expect from a well-travelled, sharp-eyed twenty-first century poet, but her native Cumbria is the source she constantly returns to, slowing the tempo to savour its place-names and define its subtle colours… A rare combination of elegiac feeling, humour, and earthy reminiscence characterises Farish’s poems. -- Carol Rumens * The Poetry Review [on The Dog of Memory] * Helen Farish knows intimately who she is and her beautiful poems capture the intense sadness of memories recalled as the years pass. The poems are wonderfully, closely crafted. She is possessed by memory, but it is a memory that is both painful and illuminating. They are poems which are deeply felt, and though they read as though they draw intensely on her own life, their power to move comes from their reticence, from what is not said, but is deeply understood and quietly acknowledged. -- Steve Matthews * Cumberland News [on The Dog of Memory] * Author InformationHelen Farish is the author of four books of poems, Intimates (Cape, 2005), Nocturnes at Nohant: The Decade of Chopin and Sand (Bloodaxe Books, 2012), The Dog of Memory (Bloodaxe Books, 2016) and The Penny Dropping (Bloodaxe Books, 2024). Intimates, a Poetry Book Society Recommendation, won the Forward Prize for Best First Collection and was shortlisted for the T.S. Eliot Prize. The Dog of Memory was shortlisted for the Lakeland Book of the Year 2017. Helen Farish was also a Writer of the Year Finalist in the Cumbria Life Culture Awards 2017. Her PhD thesis explored the work of Louise Glück and Sharon Olds. She has taught at Sheffield Hallam University and Lancaster University, and now lives in Cumbria. Tab Content 6Author Website:Countries AvailableAll regions |
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