- Paul Farley
Paul Farley is an award-winning English poet. He was born in Liverpool, studied painting at the Chelsea School of Art, and has lived in London, Brighton and Cumbria. He currently lives in north Lancashire and is a lecturer in creative writing at
Lancaster University . [ [http://www.contemporarywriters.com/authors/?p=auth02a15h405712626433 British Council "Contemporary Writers" website] ]His first collection of poetry, "The Boy from the Chemist is Here to See You" (1998) won a
Forward Poetry Prize (Best First Collection) in 1998, and was shortlisted for theWhitbread Prize . The book also gained him theSomerset Maugham Award , and the poem "Keith Chegwin as Fleance" gained him theGeoffrey Dearmer award .In 1999 he was named Sunday Times Young Writer of the Year. From 2000-2002 He was poet-in-residence at the Wordsworth Trust in Grasmere.
His second collection is "The Ice Age" (2002), which won the Whitbread Poetry Award. Writing in Scotland on Sunday, W.N. Herbert described Farley as ‘one of our most engaged and engaging poets. He has the knack of both establishing and undermining the securities of memory purely through turn of phrase.’
In 2004, Paul Farley was named as one of the Poetry Book Society's Next Generation poets. His latest collection, "Tramp in Flames," was published in 2006, a poem from which, ‘Liverpool Disappears for a Billionth of a Second’, was awarded the
Forward Prize for Best Individual Poem. The same year he also published a study of Terence Davies’s film "Distant Voices, Still Lives." He has also written a great deal for radio, including several dramas, and often writes more widely on art and literature.Bibliography
*"The Boy from the Chemist is Here to See You" (London: Picador, 1998)
*"The Ice Age" (London: Picador, 2002)
*"Tramp in Flames" (London: Picador, 2006) (shortlisted for the 2007 InternationalGriffin Poetry Prize )
*"Distant Voices, Still Lives" (London: British Film Institute, 2006)References
External links
* [http://www.contemporarywriters.com/authors/?p=auth02a15h405712626433 British Council -- Contemporary Writers: Paul Farley]
* [http://www.griffinpoetryprize.com/shortlist_2007.php?t=4 Griffin Poetry Prize biography, including audio and video clips]
* [http://www.griffinpoetryprize.com/speeches.php?t=5 Keynote speech at the 2008 Griffin Poetry Prize awards gala, including audio and video clips]
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