Paul Farley

Selected Poems

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Paul Farley is now widely recognized as one of the leading English poets writing today. Selected Poems takes stock of a singular talent of great formal gifts: for readers new to his work, this is an ideal and generous introduction, drawing on four collections from his acclaimed debut The Boy from the Chemist is Here to See You to his most recent, The Dark Film. Farley is a cultural archivist, a nostalgist of the darkest and most unsettling kind, and a meticulous curator of those fleeting details which define our lives and times most poignantly: he already reads like one of the poets by whom future generations will know us best. His Selected P… Mehr

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ISBN: 978-1-4472-2042-8
EAN: 9781447220428
Produktnummer: 15504576
Verlag: Pan Macmillan
Sprache: Englisch
Erscheinungsjahr: 2014
Seitenangabe: 192 S.
Masse: H19.7 cm x B15.2 cm x D1.4 cm 214 g
Gewicht: 214
Sonstiges: General (US: Trade)

Über den Autor

Paul Farley was born in Liverpool in 1965 and studied at the Chelsea School of Art. He has published four collections of poetry with Picador, most recently The Dark Film (2012). His other books include Edgelands (with Michael Symmons Roberts, 2011), and he has also edited a selection of John Clare's poetry. A Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature and a frequent broadcaster, he has received numerous awards including Sunday Times Young Writer of the Year, the Whitbread Poetry Prize and the E. M. Forster Award from the American Academy of Arts & Letters.