Paul Farley

Paul Farley

FRSL
Paul Farley; FRSL
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

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

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

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 thefilm 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,^[16]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(withMichael 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(withMichael Symmons Roberts) (London:Jonathan Cape,2017)ISBN 978-0-224-09754-3
The Mizzy(London: Picador, 2019)ISBN 978-1-5290-0979-8
Contributor toA New Divan: A Lyrical Dialogue Between East and West(Gingko Library,2019).ISBN 9781909942554
Contributor toRefractive Pool: Contemporary Painting in Liverpool(containsThe Studio) (Refractive Pool, 2021).ISBN 978-1-3999-0949-5

As Editor

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

References

External links

[1] Somerset Maugham Awards

[2] Sunday Times Young Writer of the Year Award

[3] The Wordsworth Trust

[4] Whitbread Poetry Awards

[5] Next Generation poets

[6] Griffin Poetry Prize

[guardian-forward-7] "Liverpool Disappears for a Billionth of a Second by Paul Farley".The Guardian.1 August 2005.

[8] Jerwood Awards

[9] Foyles Best Book of Ideas Award

[10] Book of the Week

[11] American Academy of Arts and Letters

[12] Royal Society of Literature

[13] Lancaster University

[14] Costa Book Awards

[15] T. S. Eliot Prize

[16] Donut Press

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