The Ice Age: poems by Paul Farley (English) Paperback Book

Description: The Ice Age by Paul Farley The new collection from one of the best new talents in contemporary poetry and winner of the 2002 Whitbread Poetry Award FORMAT Paperback LANGUAGE English CONDITION Brand New Publisher Description The new collection from one of the best new talents in contemporary poetry Paul Farleys debut collection: The Boy from the Chemist is Here to See You was one of the most highly acclaimed in recent years. It won the Forward Prize for Best First Collection;a Somerset Maugham Award and was shortlisted for the Whitbread Poetry Award. In 1999 he was named as the Sunday Times Young Writer of the Year. His collection was described as a stunning debut by the Sunday Times The Ice Age sees Farley extend his range to embrace a new and philosophical seriousness. His gift is to uncover the evidence so often overlooked by less attentive observers, finding - in childhood games, dental records and dog-eared field guides - those details by which we are proven and elegised. Formally deft and dizzying in its variety, The Ice Age will consolidate Farleys reputation as one of the most imaginative and enduring poets to have emerged in recent years. Notes New collection from the Liverpool poet, widely regarded as one of our best new talents, winner of the Forward Prize for Best First Collection. Author Biography Paul Farley was born in Liverpool in 1965 and studied at the Chelsea School of Art. He has published six collections of poetry with Picador. His other books include Edgelands (with Michael Symmons Roberts, 2011), and he has also edited a selection of John Clares 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. Kirkus UK Review Following on from the success of his debut collection, The Boy From the Chemist is Here to See You, these poems by Paul Farley display a mastery of form and a wonderful use of imagery and instinctively rhythmic touch that turn everyday experiences and objects into things of beauty. Themes range from childhood experiences - lying on the floor like dead fish in uniform during a wet school lunch hour and remembering a field guide to birds as an index of wishful thinking - to the study of mundane objects such as a diary with its symbols of moons, or a phone book, a city reduced to these pages, which take on a deeper, philosophical meaning beyond their physical existence. Something as ordinary and tedious as a train journey is lifted to a higher plane in two poems. In Weekend First two lines encapsulate Farleys sensitive and measured use of rhythm and image: Ill raise a weighted stem/to my homeland scattering by, and in A Tunnel we actually feel the jolt as the train enters a tunnel and experience the anxious wish to emerge, reflected in a cascading of lines into one another and the likening of the sound to that of a cube of chalk rattling around in a puncture repair kit. There are also longer and more personal poems such as the elegiac Landing Stage addressed to an unresponsive and wheelchair-bound woman (his mother?) and Thorns in which stark and violent images combine with strong language in an angry outpouring. This is an accomplished collection of remarkable assurance and depth which deserves to be widely enjoyed. (Kirkus UK) Prizes Winner of Whitbread Poetry Award 2003 (UK) Short-listed for T. S. Eliot Prize 2003 (UK) Short-listed for Forward Prize for Poetry Best Collection 2002 (UK) Promotional "Headline" The new collection from one of the best new talents in contemporary poetry and winner of the 2002 Whitbread Poetry Award Details ISBN0330484532 Author Paul Farley Publisher Pan Macmillan Year 2002 ISBN-10 0330484532 ISBN-13 9780330484534 Format Paperback Publication Date 2002-05-10 Imprint Picador Place of Publication London Country of Publication United Kingdom DEWEY 821.914 Media Book Edition 1st Audience Age 18 Pages 64 Subtitle poems Language English DOI 10.1604/9780330484534 UK Release Date 2002-05-10 AU Release Date 2002-05-10 NZ Release Date 2002-05-10 Audience General We've got this At The Nile, if you're looking for it, we've got it. With fast shipping, low prices, friendly service and well over a million items - you're bound to find what you want, at a price you'll love! TheNile_Item_ID:139300370;

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