Book description
Paul Farley's keenly awaited new collection is his first since the
highly acclaimed Tramp in Flames in 2006. The Dark Film expands Farley's
research into 'the art of seeing', and all that humans project of
themselves into the world. Farley's great poetic gift is his ability to
switch between the local and the universal, the present and the
historical past, with the most apparently effortless of gear changes,
bringing to our immediate attention things previously hidden - whether
out of sight, in the periphery of our vision, or right under our noses.
The Dark Film is a profound meditation on time, on the untold stories of
our history, and on the act of human beholding - as well as being
Farley's most richly entertaining collection to date.
One of our leading contemporary poets, Paul Farley is also an
essayist, critic, dramatist and documentary maker. He is the author of
three poetry collections, The Boy From The Chemist Is Here to See
You, Ice Age, and most recently Tramp in Flames.
Among his many literary awards are a Forward Prize, the Somerset
Maugham Award, the Whitbread Poetry Prize and the E. M. Forster Award
from the American Academy of Arts and Letters.
