BY PAUL FARLEY">SELECTED POEMS BY PAUL FARLEY IN SOUTH AFRICA

Paul Farley is now widely recognized as one of the leading English poets writing today._ Selected Poems _takes stock of a singular talent of great formal gifts: for readers new to his work, this is an ideal and generous introduction, drawing on four collections from his acclaimed debut_ The Boy from the Chemist is Here to See You _to his most recent,_ The Dark Film. Farley is a cultural archivist, a nostalgist of the darkest and most unsettling kind, and a meticulous curator of those fleeting details which define our lives and times most poignantly: he already reads like one of the poets by whom future generations will know us best. His_ Selected Poems _is a marvellous introduction to one of poetrys most capacious and eclectic imaginations.