- Paperback: 64 pages
- Publisher: Jonathan Cape (12 May 2005)
- Language English
- ISBN-10: 022407279X
- ISBN-13: 978-0224072793
- Product Dimensions: 13 x 0.5 x 19.8 cm
- Average Customer Review: 5.0 out of 5 stars See all reviews (1 customer review)
- Amazon Bestsellers Rank: 506,378 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)
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Following the great success of Next Generation Poets Jean Sprackland (shortlisted for the Whitbread and T. S. Eliot Prize) and Leontia Flynn (shortlisted for the Forward Prize), Cape introduces a third extraordinary woman poet to the list: Helen Farish.
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Provocative and tender, passionate yet wary, the highly charged poems in Helen Farish's first collection testify to the complex nature of relationships with lovers, with family and with the self. The love poems explore moments of intense exposure, and within the erotic relation seek to carve out a voice adequate to the expression of female sexuality and desire. Within this framework, the body itself becomes a rich and compelling site of inquiry.
Posted throughout the collection like sentinels, poems on the death of the father draw the poet back home where grief mingles with surprising moments of grace or redemption. But whether the encounter concerns sudden loss or sudden blessing, constant throughout is a warm and boldly embodied lyric 'I' voice generously inviting the reader in.
Poised at life's mid-point, these haunting, haunted poems negotiate their emotional freight in carefully crafted forms which mediate between exposure and guardedness. Expertly charting the geographies of sex and love, the histories of childhood and grief, Intimates introduces a new poet of originality, honesty and singular power.
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2 of 5 people found the following review helpful
Format:Paperback
Truly one of the best collections of poetry out there. If you are tempted to buy it, do: you won't be disappointed.
I have already bought two copies for friends and can't seem to stop giving my copies away. 'Intimates' is almost too good to keep!
There is a 'right'ness to Farish's words, and she really knows, like all great poets, how to end a poem superbly. Her work is truly stunning, an absolute joy to read.
This is my favourite poem from the book:
The Lighthouse of Nauset
was removed to a field.
Visitors wonder
does it miss the tides, living on the edge
of emptiness then fullness?
Here there is only the tickle of a cricket,
an out-of-the-way dusk.
The lighthouse says, Listen.
I thought I had no limits,
could look indefinitely at the longing
light lays on water.
Now I want boundaries;
a hedge, plums, more than enough.
I have already bought two copies for friends and can't seem to stop giving my copies away. 'Intimates' is almost too good to keep!
There is a 'right'ness to Farish's words, and she really knows, like all great poets, how to end a poem superbly. Her work is truly stunning, an absolute joy to read.
This is my favourite poem from the book:
The Lighthouse of Nauset
was removed to a field.
Visitors wonder
does it miss the tides, living on the edge
of emptiness then fullness?
Here there is only the tickle of a cricket,
an out-of-the-way dusk.
The lighthouse says, Listen.
I thought I had no limits,
could look indefinitely at the longing
light lays on water.
Now I want boundaries;
a hedge, plums, more than enough.
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