Monet's Broom
Bloodaxe Books Ltd (Verlag)
978-1-78037-802-2 (ISBN)
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When Claude Monet died in 1926 he left behind over three thousand works of art, and in his last decade he was exploring as rigorously as in his early years what a painting could be. Helen Farish’s poems in Monet’s Broom emerge from a deep absorption in the work of this extraordinary artist who revered that most fragile and fleeting of things: the present moment. The inspiration for her collection is wide-ranging, drawing not only on the art itself, but also on the day Monet purchased the land which enabled him to create his water garden; or a photograph of the unvisited Musée de l’Orangerie in the 1930s; or an imagining of the trains which transported his painting materials during the First World War; or the voices of the grainstacks which stood in a field behind Monet’s house and which spoke to him of the ‘mournful kernel at the heart / of all human joy’. When life finally gave Monet ‘a place to bite into’, he moved to Giverny with Alice Horschedé whose powerful voice, along with that of his first wife, Camille Doncieux, threads the narrative together. Published in Monet's centenary year, this ambitious and immensely readable fifth collection from Helen Farish asks searching questions about the creative process and what it means to lead a fully creative life. Two of her previous collections were shortlisted for the T.S. Eliot Prize, including The Penny Dropping (2024).
Helen Farish is the author of five 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), The Penny Dropping (Bloodaxe Books, 2024), and Monet's Broom, published by Bloodaxe in 2026, the artist's centenary year. 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. The Penny Dropping was shortlisted for the T.S. Eliot Prize 2024. Helen Farish was also a Writer of the Year Finalist in the Cumbria Life Culture Awards 2017. Her poetry has been included in The Poetry Pharmacy (Penguin, 2017) and The Poetry Pharmacy Forever (Penguin, 2023), as well as in three Forward anthologies, including Poems of the Decade, in Being Alive (Bloodaxe Books, 2004), and two Candlestick Press publications. Regularly published in the TLS, her work has also been published in The Spectator, The London Review of Books, The Guardian, Poetry Review, London Magazine and Poetry London. In 2004-05, she was Poet-in-Residence at the Wordsworth Trust, Grasmere, and she has been a recipient of a Hawthornden Fellowship. In 2024, she was Poet-in-Residence at Cycladic Arts (Greece). Her work has been performed by Helena Bonham-Carter, and the pianist Sarah Gait accompanied performances of poems from her Nocturnes at Nohant: The Decade of Chopin and Sand for BBC Radio 3's The Verb. She completed an MA in Humanities at Oxford Brookes University and was awarded a Studentship to pursue a PhD thesis on the poetry of Louise Glück and Sharon Olds. She spent six months researching 20th-century American women's poetry and feminist theory at the University of New Hampshire and has also been a visiting lecturer at Sewanee University, Tennessee. She taught American Literature and Creative Writing at the universities of Sheffield Hallam (where she was director of the MA in Writing) and Lancaster (where she taught undergraduates, postgraduates and research students). She is now a Poetry School tutor for the North West. After many years elsewhere, she now lives in Cumbria where she was born and grew up.
| Erscheint lt. Verlag | 19.11.2026 |
|---|---|
| Verlagsort | Tyne and Wear |
| Sprache | englisch |
| Maße | 156 x 234 mm |
| Themenwelt | Literatur ► Lyrik / Dramatik ► Lyrik / Gedichte |
| ISBN-10 | 1-78037-802-5 / 1780378025 |
| ISBN-13 | 978-1-78037-802-2 / 9781780378022 |
| Zustand | Neuware |
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