Paul Farley est un auteur acclamé dont la poésie offre un aperçu pénétrant du monde qui nous entoure. Ses œuvres explorent le tissu de la réalité, se concentrant souvent sur des objets et des expériences ordinaires auxquels il confère une profondeur poétique. Le style de Farley se caractérise par sa précision, son intelligence et sa capacité à révéler des connexions inattendues. Sa poésie captive les lecteurs par sa perspective originale et sa qualité littéraire.
Features Hisham Matar on his father, who was kidnapped while living in Egypt and imprisoned by Muammar al-Gaddafi in Libya; Helen Epstein on 'fatherhood' within the prisons of San Francisco; a dictator who has styled himself as the Father of the Nation; and, Rawi Hage on Beirut, as seen through his father's eyes.
Set in a world before Elvis, in a Liverpool before the Beatles, Terence Davies' film Distant Voices, Still Lives is an elegiac and intensely autobiographical meditation on a post-war working-class childhood. This study of the film is both a personal response, as a Liverpudlian and as a poet, and an exploration of Davies' unique visual style.