When It Rained for a Million Years by Paul Farley #Ocean Forget tired analogies with Confessionalism

Forget tired analogies with Confessionalism

the author seeks to represent the duality of a life lived in two places at once

Shortlisted for The Roehampton Poetry Prize 2017

while giving the body wings to soar

Simon Armitage has always associated his early poetic experiences with the night-time view from his bedroom window

When It Rained for a Million Years by Paul Farley #Ocean Forget tired analogies with ConfessionalismA family cohabits with a horse; a pine marten narrates its own wildlife documentary; a man is betrothed to a reed bed; the giant flag crossing a football crowd has a strange effect on those under it; a desperate migrant falls from the sky; a rampaging fifty foot poem brings terror to a city . . . As always in Paul Farley's work, the quotidian and the cosmic are braided together in surprising, funny, or disconcerting ways. And as always, the poems