The Ice Age: poems

The new collection from one of the best new talents in contemporary poetry Paul Farley`s debut collection: The Boy from the Chemist is Here to See You was one of the most highly acclaimed in recent years. It won the Forward Prize for Best First Collection;a Somerset Maugham Award and was shortlisted for the Whitbread Poetry Award. In 1999 he was named as the Sunday Times Young Writer of the Year. His collection was described as `a stunning debut` by the Sunday Times The Ice Age sees Farley extend his range to embrace a new and philosophical seriousness. His 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. Formally deft and dizzying in its variety, The Ice Age will consolidate Farley`s reputation as one of the most imaginative and enduring poets to have emerged in recent years.