The Atlantic Tunnel

Selected Poems

Paul Farley

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Some similes act like heat shields for re-entry
to reality: a tramp in flames on the floor.
We can say Flame on! to invoke the Human Torch
from the Fantastic Four. We can switch to art
and imagine Dali at this latitude
doing CCTV surrealism.
We could compare him to a protest monk
sat up the way he is.
                 —From "Tramp in Flames"

With his free-flowing and musical takes on popular and hidden culture, Paul Farley has emerged in the last decade as one of Britain’s most imaginative and formally gifted young poets. He engages with the commonplace and the overlooked, the absurd and the catastrophic, the scientific and the mythic, in ways that make us stop and think again about what it is to be living in this world at this particular time.

Farley is well on his way to becoming one of the definitive English-language voices of the age.

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“One of the most disarmingly original poets now writing.” —The Sunday Times

"Funny, observant, brilliantly musical . . . streetwise, erudite, elusive, but very accessible" —Ruth Padel, Financial Times

"Paul Farley is a poet of wit, sensuality and warmth...If the best poetry aspires to the condition of music, as Mallarmé suggests, then this is poetry of the highest order: melodic, humane and intellectually engaging." —Judges of the 2007 Griffin Poetry Prize

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Paul Farley

PAUL FARLEY is the author of three award-winning collections of poetry: The Boy from the Chemist Is Here to See You, The Ice Age, and Tramp in Flames. He lives in North Lancashire, England.

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The Atlantic Tunnel
Selected Poems
Paul Farley

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Faber & Faber
Faber and Faber, Inc.
May 2010
Hardcover
ISBN: 9780865479173
ISBN10: 0865479178
5 1/2 X x 8 1/4 inches, 160 pages
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