{"id":4098,"date":"2024-10-31T11:50:30","date_gmt":"2024-10-31T11:50:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/tseliot.com\/prize\/?p=4098"},"modified":"2025-05-08T16:15:57","modified_gmt":"2025-05-08T15:15:57","slug":"shortlisted-poet-in-focus-helen-farish","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tseliot.com\/prize\/shortlisted-poet-in-focus-helen-farish\/","title":{"rendered":"Shortlisted Poet in Focus: Helen Farish"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_4108\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-4108\" style=\"width: 1237px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-4108 size-full\" src=\"https:\/\/tseliot.com\/prize\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/12\/Farish-Helen-photo-600x1200-\u00a9-Phyllis-Christopher-1.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1237\" height=\"618\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-4108\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Helen Farish photo \u00a9 Phyllis Christopher<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p><strong> Helen Farish, shortlisted with her collection <i>The Penny Dropping<\/i> (Bloodaxe Books, 2024), is the featured poet in this week\u2019s Eliot Prize e-newsletter. <\/strong><\/p>\n<p>The newsletter tells you about the wide range of content we have just published to help you get to know Farish and her collection. This includes <a href=\"https:\/\/tseliot.com\/prize\/the-t-s-eliot-prize-2024\/videos\/#helen-farish\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">specially produced videos of\u00a0Farish<\/a> reading from <em>The Penny Dropping, <\/em>and talking about both the composition of the poems and the themes they explore.<\/p>\n<p>Download the <a href=\"https:\/\/tseliot.com\/prize\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/10\/Copley-Readers-Notes-2024-WEB.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Reader\u2019s Notes on <em>The Penny Dropping<\/em><\/a>, which include a selection of poems from the collection, plus reviews, reading suggestions, and a writing prompt or two for those inspired to respond creatively. The aim of the Readers\u2019 Notes is to inspire deeper readings of the book, individually or shared with friends, book groups or writing workshops.<\/p>\n<p>We have also published a searching <a href=\"https:\/\/tseliot.com\/prize\/the-t-s-eliot-prize-2024\/reviews\/#helen-farish\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">review, specially commissioned from John Field<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><strong>To be the first to read Eliot Prize news, <a href=\"https:\/\/tseliot.com\/prize\/subscribe-to-the-t-s-eliot-prize-newsletter\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">simply sign up to weekly e-newsletter<\/a>.<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Helen Farish, shortlisted with her collection The Penny Dropping (Bloodaxe Books, 2024), is the featured poet in this week\u2019s Eliot Prize e-newsletter. The newsletter tells you about the wide range of content we have just published to help you get to know Farish and her collection. This includes specially produced videos of\u00a0Farish reading from The [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[36],"tags":[63,72],"class_list":["post-4098","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news","tag-63","tag-farish"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/tseliot.com\/prize\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4098","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/tseliot.com\/prize\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/tseliot.com\/prize\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tseliot.com\/prize\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tseliot.com\/prize\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4098"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/tseliot.com\/prize\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4098\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6666,"href":"https:\/\/tseliot.com\/prize\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4098\/revisions\/6666"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tseliot.com\/prize\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4098"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tseliot.com\/prize\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4098"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tseliot.com\/prize\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4098"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}