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Paul Farley

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{{Short description|British poet, writer and broadcaster}}

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| name = Paul Farley

| honorific_suffix = FRSL

| birth_date = {{Birth year and age|1965}}

|birth_place = Liverpool, England

| occupation = Poet
Broadcaster

| nationality =British

|alma_mater = Chelsea College of Art & Design

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| subject = Poetry

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Paul Farley FRSL (born 1965) is a British poet, writer and broadcaster.

Life and work

Farley was born in Liverpool. He studied painting at the Chelsea School of Art, and has lived in London, Brighton and Cumbria. 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 the Whitbread Prize. The book also gained him the Somerset Maugham Award,[https://www.societyofauthors.org/Prizes/Society-of-Authors-Awards/Somerset-Maugham/Past-winners Somerset Maugham Awards] and in 1999 he won the Sunday Times Young Writer of the Year Award.[http://www.youngwriteraward.com/book/paul-farley/ Sunday Times Young Writer of the Year Award] From 2000 to 2002, he was the poet-in-residence at the Wordsworth Trust[http://www.wordsworth.org.uk The Wordsworth Trust] in Grasmere. His second collection, The Ice Age (2002), received the Whitbread Poetry Award.Whitbread Poetry Awards{{Circular reference|date=January 2020}}

In 2004, Farley was named as one of the Poetry Book Society's Next Generation poets[http://nextgenerationpoets.com/previous-generations/next-generation-2004/ Next Generation poets] His third collection, Tramp in Flames(2006), was shortlisted for the Griffin Poetry Prize,[http://www.griffinpoetryprize.com/awards-and-poets/shortlists/2007-shortlist/paul-farley/ Griffin Poetry Prize] a poem from which, ‘Liverpool Disappears for a Billionth of a Second’, was awarded the Forward Prize for Best Individual Poem."[https://www.theguardian.com/books/2005/aug/01/forwardprizeforpoetry2005.forwardprizeforpoetry Liverpool Disappears for a Billionth of a Second by Paul Farley]". The Guardian. 1 August 2005. The same year he also published a study of Terence Davies' film, Distant Voices, Still Lives. In 2007, he edited a selection of John Clare for Faber's Poet to Poet series.

As a broadcaster he has made many arts, features and documentary programmes for radio and television, as well as original radio dramas, and his poems for radio are collected in Field Recordings:BBC Poems 1998-2008. He makes regular appearances on BBC Radio 4’s Saturday Review, Front Row and BBC Radio 3's The Verb, and he presented the contemporary poetry programme The Echo Chamber on Radio 4 from 2012 to 2018. His book, Edgelands, a non-fiction journey into England's overlooked wilderness (co-authored with Michael Symmons Roberts) was published by Jonathan Cape in 2011; it received the Royal Society of Literature’s Jerwood Award,[https://jerwoodarts.org/projects/the-royal-society-of-literature-rsl-jerwood-awards-for-non-fiction/ Jerwood Awards] the Foyles Best Book of Ideas Award 2012[https://www2.mmu.ac.uk/news-and-events/news/story/?id=1574 Foyles Best Book of Ideas Award] and was serialised as a BBC Radio 4 Book of the Week.[https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b00zf9vl Book of the Week] His fourth collection The Dark Film, was a Poetry Book Society Choice in 2012.

In 2009, he received the E. M. Forster Award from the American Academy of Arts & Letters.[https://artsandletters.org/awards/ American Academy of Arts and Letters] He was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature[http://www.rslit.org Royal Society of Literature] in 2012.

He currently lives in Lancashire and is Professor of Poetry at Lancaster University.[https://www.lancaster.ac.uk/english-literature-and-creative-writing/about-us/staff/paul-farley2 Lancaster University]

His fifth collection The Mizzy was shortlisted for the 2019 Costa Poetry Award[https://www.costa.co.uk/behind-the-beans/costa-book-awards/book-awards Costa Book Awards] and the T. S. Eliot Prize 2019.

[https://www.nationalpoetrylibrary.org.uk/news-stories/shortlist-announced-ts-eliot-prize-2019 T. S. Eliot Prize]

Awards

Works

=Bibliography=

  • The Boy from the Chemist is Here to See You (London: Picador, 1998) {{ISBN|978-0-330-35481-3}}
  • The Ice Age (London: Picador, 2002) {{ISBN|978-0-330-48453-4}}
  • Distant Voices, Still Lives (London: British Film Institute, 2006) (about the film of the same name by Terence Davies) {{ISBN|978-1-84457-139-0}}
  • Tramp in Flames (London: Picador, 2006) {{ISBN|978-0-330-44007-3}}
  • Field Recordings: BBC Poems (1998-2008) (London: Donut Press,[http://www.donutpress.co.uk Donut Press] 2009) {{ISBN|978-0-9553604-6-6}}
  • The Atlantic Tunnel: Selected Poems (New York: Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2010) {{ISBN|978-0-86547-917-3}}
  • Edgelands: Journeys into England's True Wilderness (with Michael Symmons Roberts) (London: Jonathan Cape, 2011) {{ISBN|978-0-224-08902-9}}
  • The Dark Film (London: Picador, 2012) {{ISBN|978-1-4472-1255-3}}
  • Selected Poems (London: Picador, 2014) {{ISBN|978-1-4472-2042-8}}
  • Deaths of the Poets (with Michael Symmons Roberts) (London: Jonathan Cape, 2017) {{ISBN|978-0-224-09754-3}}
  • The Mizzy (London: Picador, 2019) {{ISBN|978-1-5290-0979-8}}
  • Contributor to A New Divan: A Lyrical Dialogue Between East and West (Gingko Library, 2019). {{ISBN|9781909942554}}
  • Contributor to Refractive Pool: Contemporary Painting in Liverpool (contains The Studio) (Refractive Pool, 2021). {{ISBN|978-1-3999-0949-5}}
  • When It Rained for a Million Years (London: Picador, 2025) {{ISBN|978-1-0350-6867-8}}

As Editor

  • John Clare Selected Poems (London: Faber & Faber, 2010) {{ISBN|978-0-571-27427-7}}

References

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External links

  • [https://web.archive.org/web/20070410165422/http://www.contemporarywriters.com/authors/?p=auth02A15H405712626433 British Council -- Contemporary Writers: Paul Farley]
  • [http://www.poetryarchive.org/poetryarchive/singlePoet.do?poetId=27 Poetry Archive--Profile, including audio clips]
  • [http://www.griffinpoetryprize.com/awards-and-poets/shortlists/2007-shortlist/paul-farley/ Griffin Poetry Prize biography, including video clip]
  • [http://www.griffinpoetryprize.com/awards-and-poets/speeches/paul-farley-2008-awards/ Keynote speech at the 2008 Griffin Poetry Prize awards gala, including video clips]
  • [http://www.granta.com/New-Writing/Netherley Granta 102: The New Nature Writing]
  • [https://www.theguardian.com/books/2010/apr/03/mark-haddon-paul-farley-conversation The Guardian: In conversation: Mark Haddon and Paul Farley]
  • [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xuE969Pk1bU 57 Productions: Interview]
  • [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4M646Bju69I 57 Productions: Liverpool Disappears for a Billionth of a Second]
  • [http://moreintelligentlife.com/blog/ariel-ramchandani/qa-paul-farley-poet Intelligent Life: Interview]
  • [https://www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle/2011/aug/07/paul-farley-once-upon-a-life The Observer: Once upon a life]

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