Shortlisted for the T.S. Eliot Prize 2024Drawing on powerful and universal themes, The Penny Dropping traces the journey of a relationship from first meeting to eventual breakup. 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 Eliots 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.

Binding: Paperback;66 pages; Publisher: Bloodaxe Books; Classification: DC; Weight: 254 g; Dimensions: 156 x 233 x 11

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