Paul Farley
Paul Farley | |
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Born | 1965 (age 58–59) Liverpool,England |
Occupation | Poet Broadcaster |
Nationality | British |
Alma mater | Chelsea College of Art & Design |
Subject | Poetry |
Paul FarleyFRSL(born 1965) is a British poet, writer and broadcaster.
Life and work
[edit]Farley was born inLiverpool.He studied painting at theChelsea School of Art,and has lived inLondon,BrightonandCumbria.His first collection of poetry,The Boy from the Chemist is Here to See You(1998) won aForward Poetry Prize(Best First Collection) in 1998, and was shortlisted for theWhitbread Prize.The book also gained him theSomerset Maugham Award,[1]and in 1999 he won theSunday Times Young Writer of the Year Award.[2]From 2000 to 2002, he was the poet-in-residence at theWordsworth Trust[3]in Grasmere. His second collection,The Ice Age(2002), received theWhitbread Poetry Award.[4][circular reference]
In 2004, Farley was named as one of the Poetry Book Society'sNext Generation poets[5]His third collection,Tramp in Flames(2006), was shortlisted for the Griffin Poetry Prize,[6]a poem from which, ‘Liverpool Disappears for a Billionth of a Second’, was awarded theForward Prizefor Best Individual Poem.[7]The same year he also published a study ofTerence Davies' film,Distant Voices, Still Lives.In 2007, he edited a selection ofJohn Clarefor Faber'sPoet to Poetseries.
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 inField Recordings:BBC Poems 1998-2008.He makes regular appearances onBBC Radio 4’sSaturday Review,Front RowandBBC Radio 3'sThe Verb,and he presented the contemporary poetry programmeThe Echo ChamberonRadio 4from 2012 to 2018. His book,Edgelands,a non-fiction journey into England'soverlooked wilderness(co-authored withMichael Symmons Roberts) was published by Jonathan Cape in 2011; it received theRoyal Society of Literature’sJerwood Award,[8]the Foyles Best Book of Ideas Award 2012[9]and was serialised as a BBC Radio 4Book of the Week.[10]His fourth collectionThe Dark Film,was aPoetry Book SocietyChoice in 2012.
In 2009, he received theE. M. Forster Awardfrom theAmerican Academy of Arts & Letters.[11]He was elected a Fellow of theRoyal Society of Literature[12]in 2012.
He currently lives inLancashireand is Professor of Poetry atLancaster University.[13] His fifth collectionThe Mizzyhas been shortlisted for the 2019 Costa Poetry Award[14]and the T. S. Eliot Prize 2019. [15]
Awards
[edit]- 1996ObserverArvon International Poetry Competition
- 1998Geoffrey Dearmer Award
- 1998Forward Poetry Prizefor Best First Collection,The Boy from the Chemist is Here to See You
- 1999Somerset Maugham Award
- 1999Sunday Times Young Writer of the Year Award
- 2000 Arts Council Writer's Award
- 2002Whitbread Poetry Award,The Ice Age
- 2005Forward Poetry Prizefor Best Single Poem, "Liverpool Disappears for a Billionth of a Second"
- 2007Griffin International Poetry Prize,shortlist,Tramp in Flames
- 2009Royal Society of Literature Jerwood Award for Non-Fiction,Edgelands
- 2009E. M. Forster Award(American Academy of Arts & Letters)
- 2009Travelling Scholarship of the Society of Authors
- 2012 Foyles Best Book of Ideas,Edgelands
- 2012Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature
- 2013Cholmondeley Award of the Society of Authors
- 2019T. S. Eliot Prize,shortlist,The Mizzy
- 2019Costa Poetry Award,shortlist,The Mizzy
Works
[edit]Bibliography
[edit]- The Boy from the Chemist is Here to See You(London:Picador,1998)ISBN978-0-330-35481-3
- The Ice Age(London: Picador, 2002)ISBN978-0-330-48453-4
- Distant Voices, Still Lives(London: British Film Institute, 2006) (about thefilm of the same name by Terence Davies)ISBN978-1-84457-139-0
- Tramp in Flames(London: Picador, 2006)ISBN978-0-330-44007-3
- Field Recordings: BBC Poems (1998-2008)(London: Donut Press,[16]2009)ISBN978-0-9553604-6-6
- The Atlantic Tunnel: Selected Poems(New York: Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2010)ISBN978-0-86547-917-3
- Edgelands: Journeys into England's True Wilderness(withMichael Symmons Roberts) (London:Jonathan Cape,2011)ISBN978-0-224-08902-9
- The Dark Film(London: Picador, 2012)ISBN978-1-4472-1255-3
- Selected Poems(London: Picador, 2014)ISBN978-1-4472-2042-8
- Deaths of the Poets(withMichael Symmons Roberts) (London:Jonathan Cape,2017)ISBN978-0-224-09754-3
- The Mizzy(London: Picador, 2019)ISBN978-1-5290-0979-8
- Contributor toA New Divan: A Lyrical Dialogue Between East and West(Gingko Library,2019).ISBN9781909942554
- Contributor toRefractive Pool: Contemporary Painting in Liverpool(containsThe Studio) (Refractive Pool, 2021).ISBN978-1-3999-0949-5
As Editor
- John Clare Selected Poems(London: Faber & Faber, 2010)ISBN978-0-571-27427-7
References
[edit]- ^Somerset Maugham Awards
- ^Sunday Times Young Writer of the Year Award
- ^The Wordsworth Trust
- ^Whitbread Poetry Awards
- ^Next Generation poets
- ^Griffin Poetry Prize
- ^"Liverpool Disappears for a Billionth of a Second by Paul Farley".The Guardian.1 August 2005.
- ^Jerwood Awards
- ^Foyles Best Book of Ideas Award
- ^Book of the Week
- ^American Academy of Arts and Letters
- ^Royal Society of Literature
- ^Lancaster University
- ^Costa Book Awards
- ^T. S. Eliot Prize
- ^Donut Press
External links
[edit]- British Council -- Contemporary Writers: Paul Farley
- Poetry Archive--Profile, including audio clips
- Griffin Poetry Prize biography, including video clip
- Keynote speech at the 2008 Griffin Poetry Prize awards gala, including video clips
- Granta 102: The New Nature Writing
- The Guardian: In conversation: Mark Haddon and Paul Farley
- 57 Productions: Interview
- 57 Productions: Liverpool Disappears for a Billionth of a Second
- Intelligent Life: Interview
- The Observer: Once upon a life