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>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 _________________________________________________________________ The new MSN 8 is here: Try it free* for 2 months http://join.msn.com/?page=dept/dialup