Monet's Broom
$35.76
- Paperback
80 pages
- Release Date
19 November 2026
Summary
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.
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 Broome emerge from a deep absorption in the work of this extraordinary artist who revered th…
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9781780378022 |
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| ISBN-10: | 1780378025 |
| Author: | Helen Farish |
| Publisher: | Bloodaxe Books Ltd |
| Imprint: | Bloodaxe Books Ltd |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Number of Pages: | 80 |
| Release Date: | 19 November 2026 |
| Dimensions: | 8mm x 156mm x 234mm |
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Critics Review
It is a virtuosic interrogation of the relationship between lyric and narrative time… Farish keeps alive the immediacy of the vanished present by meticulous relocation of ‘You’ and ‘I’ in space and time…The Penny Dropping is the best love poem anyone has written in years.
– Mimi Khalvati, Anthony Joseph and Hannah Sullivan * T.S. Eliot Prize 2024 judges *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 * on The Penny Dropping *Helen Farish
Helen Farish is the author of five books of poems:
- Intimates (2005)
- Nocturnes at Nohant: The Decade of Chopin and Sand (2012)
- The Dog of Memory (2016)
- The Penny Dropping (2024)
- Monet’s Broom (2026)
Intimates was 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.
Her work has been performed by Helena Bonham-Carter. The pianist Sarah Gait accompanied performances of poems from Nocturnes at Nohant: The Decade of Chopin and Sand for BBC Radio 3’s The Verb.
She taught American Literature and Creative Writing at the universities of Sheffield Hallam (where she was director of the MA in Writing) and Lancaster.
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