title: Helen Farish
text: # 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.
  
  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.
  
  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
  