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The Dog of Memory
Helen Farish
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Description for The Dog of Memory
Paperback. Helen Farish's third collection is preoccupied with narratives from the past. The dog of memory roams the landscapes of its choice: not only place, Farish's native Cumberland and further afield - mornings in Sicily, night skies in Athens - and people, but also the landscape of literature itself. Num Pages: 96 pages. BIC Classification: DCF. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 140 x 216 x 9. Weight in Grams: 150.
Helen Farish's third collection is preoccupied with narratives from the past. 'What if everyone who ever lived here had left one thing behind?' she asks in one poem. The dog of memory, an animal more often unbiddable and capricious than it is comforting and predictable, roams the landscapes of its choice: not only place, Farish's native Cumberland and further afield - mornings in Sicily, night skies in Athens - and people, but also the landscape of literature itself which is explored through re-readings of authors encountered during her school days - Tennyson, Shakespeare, the Brontes. The imagined bird flying over ... Read more
Helen Farish's third collection is preoccupied with narratives from the past. 'What if everyone who ever lived here had left one thing behind?' she asks in one poem. The dog of memory, an animal more often unbiddable and capricious than it is comforting and predictable, roams the landscapes of its choice: not only place, Farish's native Cumberland and further afield - mornings in Sicily, night skies in Athens - and people, but also the landscape of literature itself which is explored through re-readings of authors encountered during her school days - Tennyson, Shakespeare, the Brontes. The imagined bird flying over ... Read more
Product Details
Publisher
Bloodaxe Books Ltd
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2016
Condition
New
Number of Pages
96
Place of Publication
Tyne and Wear, United Kingdom
ISBN
9781780373188
SKU
V9781780373188
Shipping Time
Usually ships in 5 to 9 working days
Ref
99-87
About Helen Farish
Helen Farish was born in Cumbria in 1962, where she now lives. She has been a Fellow at Hawthornden International Centre for Writers and was the first female Poet in Residence at the Wordsworth Trust (2004-05). She has also been a Visiting Lecturer at Sewanee University, Tennessee, a Visiting Scholar at the University of New Hampshire, and a lecturer in ... Read more
Reviews for The Dog of Memory
'The intimacy of Helen Farish's poems is of an extraordinary kind: at once close to and distant from family and body and thought. The poems are bodily and disembodied, emotionally engaged and detached, passionate and reasoned. Nobody writes with quite this variety of intelligence' - Bernard O'Donoghue; 'Helen Farish writes with extraordinary candour, wittily, movingly, with sensuous intelligence.' - David ... Read more