Tramp in Flames
By Paul Farley
2006
First Published
4.32
Average Rating
90
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Following the exceptional acclaim for his first two books, Farley might have been forgiven for resting on his laurels with his âdifficult thirdâ â but Tramp in Flames instead finds him driving his formal ambition and remarkable imagination harder than ever. A book of considerable emotional daring and sometimes Wordsworthian sweep, Tramp in Flames is the work of a meticulous archivist of our cultural memory, and sets the palimpsest of the present hour on a light-box. It also shows Farley rapidly becoming one of the definitive English voices of the age.
Resonant without being flashy... lines that will stick with you for a really, really long time Mark Haddon Funny, observant, brilliantly musical... streetwise, erudite, elusive, but very accessible Ruth Padel, Financial Times Farley is one of our most vital and engaging voices. Even a title can twist at the familiar, commanding our attention. He has the knack of both establishing and undermining the securities of memory purely through turn of phrase W. N. Herbvert, Scotland on Sunday Poetry Book Society RecommendationAvg Rating
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Author
Paul Farley
Author · 8 books
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.
