When It Rained for a Million Years - Paul Farley

Shortlisted for the T.S. Eliot Prize for PoetryAn Observer Book of the YearA family cohabits with a horse; three riots are tucked up safely in their beds; a tumbleweed takes up a career in comedy; the giant flag crossing a football crowd has a strange effect on those underneath; 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, his poems inhabit... Zobrazit více