The Penny Dropping by Helen Farish Groundswell Speaker 2024 Alain Prost

Alain Prost

When Ada arrives in Meadowlark

confrontational Spielberg of Minority Report

impossible puzzles and riddles

crocodiles

The Penny Dropping by Helen Farish Groundswell Speaker 2024 Alain ProstThe Penny Dropping offers an account of a cherished relationship from first meeting to eventual break up. Distance gives the writer a retrospective clarity from which she does not flinch despite its challenges (Look at me, laments the speaker in Pretty Woman, stepping back into the dress, pulling up the side zip, smoothing it down, as though thats all it took). But ultimately poems such as No Point Now undo their own argument that the penny has