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Monet's Broom

Monet's Broom

Farish, Helen

Paperback

General Poetry

Publisher Price: $17.95

PREORDER - Expected ship date January 19, 2027

ISBN10: 1780378025
ISBN13: 9781780378022
Publisher: Bloodaxe Books
Published: Jan 19 2027
Pages: 96
Weight: 0.43
Height: 0.27 Width: 6.14 Depth: 9.21
Language: English

This ambitious and immensely readable fifth collection from Helen Farish asks searching questions about the creative process and what it means to lead a fully creative life.


When Claude Monet died in 1926 he left behind over three thousand works of art, and in his last decade he was exploring as rigorously as in his early years what a painting could be. Helen Farish's poems in Monet's Broom emerge from a deep absorption in the work of this extraordinary artist who revered that most fragile and fleeting of things: the present moment. The inspiration for her collection is wide-ranging, drawing not only on the art itself, but also on the day Monet purchased the land which enabled him to create his water garden; or a photograph of the unvisited Musée de l'Orangerie in the 1930s; or an imagining of the trains which transported his painting materials during the First World War; or the voices of the grainstacks which stood in a field behind Monet's house and which spoke to him of the 'mournful kernel at the heart / of all human joy'. When life finally gave Monet 'a place to bite into', he moved to Giverny with Alice Horschedé whose powerful voice, along with that of his first wife, Camille Doncieux, threads the narrative together.

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