Intimates

"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 powerful love poems, attuned to the expression of a female erotic, speak openly about the emotional and the sexual; the body itself becomes a rich and compelling site of inquiry." "But the 'intimates', according to 'The Sea Speaks', are also 'disarray and fear'. Posted throughout the collection like sentinels, poems on the death of the poet's father draw her back home where grief mingles with…