Ice Age
A Collection of Poems

By Paul Farley
Picador / Macmillan
June 2002
ISBN: 0-330-48453-2
54 p.
$16.95 paper original

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Paul Farley's debut collection, The Boy From the Chemist Is Here to See You, was one of the most celebrated debuts of the Nineties. The poems in The Ice Age are as engaged and engaging as ever, but also display a new philosophical depth: Farley's gift is to uncover the evidence so often overlooked by less attentive observers, finding - in childhood games, dental records and dog-eared field guides - the details by which we are proven and elegized. The Ice Age will only enhance Farley's reputation as one of the most formally gifted and imaginative poets to have emerged in recent years. The Author: Paul Farley was born in Liverpool in 1965, and studied at the Chelsea School of Art. In 1998 his first collection won a Forward Prize and a Somerset Maugham Award, and a year later he was the Sunday Times Young Writer of the Year. Since then he has lived in London, Brighton, and Cumbria.

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