The Penny Dropping
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The Penny Dropping

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The Penny Dropping

About this book

Shortlisted for the T.S. Eliot Prize 2024

Drawing on powerful and universal themes, The Penny Dropping traces the journey of a relationship from first meeting to eventual break-up.

Distance and maturity give retrospective access to moments of revelation which went fatally unacknowledged or unheeded at the time and which now return with an insistence impossible to ignore. But if the penny drops years too late, these poems are their own implicit argument for the value of revisiting our pasts if only in order to acquire a fuller, more complete presence in the now.

Hovering over the collection is Eliot's final question in The Waste Land: 'Shall I at least set my lands in order?' And as Helen Farish applies herself to the task, her unflinching yet compassionate voice has never been more in evidence. From the elation of the opening 'Things We Loved' to the acceptance and humour of 'Of All My Losses', much is at stake on every page.

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Information

Year
2024
Print ISBN
9781852249960
eBook ISBN
9781780377704
Edition
0

Table of contents

  1. Cover
  2. Title Page
  3. Copyright
  4. Contents
  5. Things We Loved
  6. In the Balance
  7. Taste of Home
  8. ‘The Eve of St Agnes’
  9. Exposure
  10. The Innocence of Pronouns
  11. Mozart’s 233rd Birthday
  12. Premonition
  13. The Sirocco
  14. Qui e Li
  15. The Halcyon Days
  16. Snow on the Road to Naoussa
  17. Christ Has Risen! He Has Risen Indeed!
  18. Day of Miracles
  19. Filling Station, Crete
  20. P
  21. May Day
  22. From the Album
  23. Burning
  24. Legacy
  25. The Right Thing
  26. Valentine’s Day
  27. Flowers, Baguettes, Fromage, Wine
  28. ‘Pretty Woman’
  29. A Hundred Days
  30. That Route
  31. The Butcher’s Boy
  32. The Candle Snuffer
  33. The Penny Dropping
  34. In Seville That Spring
  35. Scapegoat
  36. That Postcard You Sent from Crete
  37. On Approval
  38. My Exit
  39. Thanking the Universe
  40. Fairytale
  41. The Waste Land
  42. Original You
  43. No Point Now
  44. Triggers
  45. Pasta alla Gorgonzola
  46. The Shaman Says
  47. How Brilliant Is That?
  48. Anniversary
  49. Red Circle
  50. Hero
  51. The Joke
  52. Films We Saw at The Phoenix
  53. Aftermath
  54. Beauty Spot
  55. Bringing Things Forward
  56. That Selige Sehnsucht Feeling
  57. Notes
  58. Acknowledgements