Hi Nick,
Thanks for this info. I'll look it up. Amazon's shipping rates to the
colonies have become a bit steep for me so I tend to avoid buying from
them but I'll keep an eye out here. I like the title of the first book.
Cheers,
Jill
On Thursday, January 9, 2003, at 10:23 PM, Nick Temple wrote:
>> From: Jill Jones <[log in to unmask]>
>
>> I've just read that a book called The Ice Age by a poet called Paul
>> Farley
>> has
>> just won the Whitbread. I am unfamiliar with the name so was
>> wondering if
>> anyone had any clues.
>>
>> Cheers,
>> Jill
>
> He's a young (by which I mean late 20s, early 30s) poet from
> Liverpool. The
> Ice Age is his second volume to be published by Picador, the first
> being
> 'The Boy From the Chemist Is Here to See You' (or something like that)
> which
> I think is pretty excellent for a first collection. Haven't seen The
> Ice Age
> as yet. You should find both on Amazon (UK) I should imagine.....I
> like his
> wit and wordplay, but that might just be me; he may be a little (for
> want of
> a better word) mainstream for some on this list, but he's extremely
> inventive within his own field, as it were. Worth a look. There's a
> page of
> the Whitbread winners (with a link to a poem by him) on the Guardian
> website
> here: http://books.guardian.co.uk/whitbread2002/0,12605,837891,00.html
>
> Cheers,
>
> Nick T
>
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