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    The Atlantic Tunnel: Selected Poems

    By 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.

    With The Atlantic Tunnel, Farley is well on his way to becoming one of the definitive English-language voices of the age.

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherMacmillan Publishers
    Release dateSep 29, 2015
    ISBN9781466894167
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    The Atlantic Tunnel: Selected Poems
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    Paul Farley

    Paul Farley was born in Liverpool in 1965 and studied at the Chelsea School of Art. He has published four collections of poetry with Picador, most recently The Dark Film (2012). His other books include Edgelands (with Michael Symmons Roberts, 2011), and he has also edited a selection of John Clare's poetry. A Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature and a frequent broadcaster, he has received numerous awards including Sunday Times Young Writer of the Year, the Whitbread Poetry Prize and the E.M. Forster Award from the American Academy of Arts & Letters.

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