The Ice Age

by Paul Farley

The new collection from one of the best new talents in contemporary poetry and winner of the 2002 Whitbread Poetry Award

Genres: Poetry

64 pages, Paperback

First published June 1, 2002

About the author

Paul Farley is the author of four collections of poetry and has received the Forward Prize for Best First Collection, the Whitbread Poetry Award and the E.M. Forster Award from the American Academy of Arts and Letters.

Reviews

[Miss Mandatory · Rating 5 out of 5]

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to hear him read Treacle.

He's captivating live, up there with the late Michael Donaghy. And surely persuades me that poetry can be ever relevant, passionate and ever new.

[scarlettraces · Rating 5 out of 5]

He's good at both the one-two punch ("Blink if you remember this") and lyrical evocation linking out to the wider world of memory and letters e.g. Thorns. Solid craft.

[Jean Sharp · Rating 5 out of 5]

Thought provoking accessible poetry.

[Kirsty · Rating 2 out of 5]

This is a good collection of poems but it didn't grab me the way I like poetry to. I think this might be down to a use of detached language which in some examples give you a very atmospheric verse but in others leaves you trying to grasp the imagery which unfortunately for me meant being a bit bored here and there.

It is definitely worth the read especially if you are fond of birds because there are some beautiful verses on this subject my favorite of which being 'For the House Sparrow, in Decline'.