Following the exceptional acclaim for his first two books, Farley might have been forgiven for resting on his laurels with his `difficult third' - but Tramp in Flames instead finds him driving his formal ambition and remarkable imagination harder than ever. A book of considerable emotional daring and sometimes Wordsworthian sweep, Tramp in Flames is the work of a meticulous archivist of our cultural memory, and sets the palimpsest of the present hour on a light-box. It also shows Farley rapidly becoming one of the definitive English voices of the age. 'Resonant without being flashy . . . lines that will stick with you for a really, really long time' Mark Haddon 'Funny, observant, brilliantly musical . . . streetwise, erudite, elusive, but very accessible' Ruth Padel, Financial Times 'Farley is one of our most vital and engaging voices. Even a title can twist at the familiar, commanding our attention. He has the knack of both establishing and undermining the securities of memory purely through turn of phrase' W. N. Herbvert, Scotland on Sunday Poetry Book Society Recommendation

Tramp in Flames

Literature & Fiction

Paul Farley

Poetry

Picador

John Clare (Poet to Poet)

History & Criticism

Faber&Faber

Field Recordings: BBC Poems 1998-2008

Donut Press

The Dark Film, Paul Farley's first collection since the highly acclaimed Tramp in Flames, expands the poet's research into `the art of seeing', and all that humans project of themselves into the world. Farley's great poetic gift is his ability to switch between the local and the universal, the present and the historical past, with the most apparently effortless of gear changes; he brings to our immediate attention things previously hidden - whether out of sight, in the periphery of our vision, or right under our noses. The Dark Film is a profound meditation on time, on the untold stories of our history, and on the act of human beholding - as well as Farley's most richly entertaining and rewarding collection to date. `One of the most exciting of the early-career English poets. A writer who brings danger to what he describes in the title of one piece as "Big Safe Themes," Farley ranges effortlessly from Orchestral Manoeuvres in the Dark to Google Earth' Paul Muldoon, The Week `One of the most disarmingly original poets now writing' Alan Brownjohn, Sunday Times `Resonant without being flashy . . . lines that will stick with you for a really, really long time' Mark Haddon, Guardian `Funny, observant, brilliantly musical . . . streetwise, erudite, elusive, but very accessible' Ruth Padel, Financial Times `Farley is one of our most vital and engaging voices. He has the knack of both establishing and undermining the securities of memory purely through turn of phrase' W. N. Herbert, Scotland on Sunday

Dark Film

Picador USA

Edgelands

Chivers

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