When It Rained for a Million Years
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- Paperback
96 pages
- Release Date
10 June 2025
Summary
A family cohabits with a horse; three riots are tucked up safely in their beds; a tumbleweed takes up a career in comedy; the giant flag crossing a football crowd has a strange effect on those underneath; a rampaging fifty-foot poem brings terror to a city.
As always in Paul Farley’s work, the quotidian and the cosmic are braided together in surprising, funny, or disconcerting ways. And as always, his poems inhabit and explore intermediate, uncertain spaces, a fertile terrain found be…
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9781035068678 |
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| ISBN-10: | 1035068672 |
| Author: | Paul Farley |
| Publisher: | Pan Macmillan |
| Imprint: | Picador |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Number of Pages: | 96 |
| Release Date: | 10 June 2025 |
| Weight: | 136g |
| Dimensions: | 197mm x 152mm x 11mm |
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You can never predict how – or where – a Paul Farley poem is going to land … he has his own wit and singular insights * Guardian *
Startlingly imaginative … The acrobatic leaps in Farley’s imagination make for a thrilling ride, and […] “sends a ripple through your heart” * Observer *
Farley’s strength, throughout his career, is the delicacy of his poems’ music, their soft lighting and good humour, and this book is no exception * Poetry Book Society Bulletin *
About The Author
Paul Farley
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 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. When It Rained For a Million Years is his sixth collection.
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