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The ice age
Paul Farley

The ice age

Picador (May 15, 2002)
9780330484534
66 pages | 127 x 200 mm
Dewey 821/.914
LC Classification PR6056.A675 .I34 2002
LC Control No. 2005412357

Subject

  • English Poetry
  • Poetry / American / General
  • Poetry / Continental European
  • Poetry / English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh
  • Poetry / General

Plot

Paul Farley’s debut collection, The Boy From the Chemist is Here to See You, was one of the most celebrated debuts of the nineties. The poems in The Ice Age are as engaged and engaging as ever, but also display a new philosophical depth: Farley’s gift is to uncover the evidence so often overlooked by less attentive observers, finding – in childhood games, dental records and dog-eared field guides – those details by which we are proven and elegized. The Ice Age will only enhance Farley’s reputation as one of the most formally gifted and imaginative poets to have emerged in recent years.