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The Ice Age: Poems (Paperback)

by Paul Farley (Author)
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Product details

  • Paperback: 54 pages
  • Publisher: Picador (10 May 2002)
  • Language English
  • ISBN-10: 0330484532
  • ISBN-13: 978-0330484534
  • Product Dimensions: 19 x 12.8 x 0.6 cm
  • Average Customer Review: 5.0 out of 5 stars See all reviews (1 customer review)
  • Amazon.co.uk Sales Rank: 236,702 in Books (See Bestsellers in Books)
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Review
Following on from the success of his debut collection, The Boy From the Chemist is Here to See You, these poems by Paul Farley display a mastery of form and a wonderful use of imagery and instinctively rhythmic touch that turn everyday experiences and objects into things of beauty. Themes range from childhood experiences - lying on the floor like 'dead fish in uniform' during a wet school lunch hour and remembering a field guide to birds as 'an index of wishful thinking' - to the study of mundane objects such as a diary with its symbols of moons, or a phone book, 'a city reduced to these pages', which take on a deeper, philosophical meaning beyond their physical existence. Something as ordinary and tedious as a train journey is lifted to a higher plane in two poems. In 'Weekend First' two lines encapsulate Farley's sensitive and measured use of rhythm and image: 'I'll raise a weighted stem/to my homeland scattering by', and in 'A Tunnel' we actually feel the jolt as the train enters a tunnel and experience the anxious wish to emerge, reflected in a cascading of lines into one another and the likening of the sound to that of a cube of chalk rattling around in a puncture repair kit. There are also longer and more personal poems such as the elegiac 'Landing Stage' addressed to an unresponsive and wheelchair-bound woman (his mother?) and 'Thorns' in which