When It Rained for a Million Years by Paul Farley Chatto & Windus marketing and publicity

marketing and publicity

suggesting a relevance that resonates today

we have many orthogonal points of the ‘I’ lain aslant upon lyric’s imitation heartbeats

and new work written in a vertiginously changing political world

and you shall see Gypsies

When It Rained for a Million Years by Paul Farley Chatto & Windus marketing and publicityA 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