When It Rained for a Million Years

You can never predict how – or where – a Paul Farley poem is going to land … he has his own wit and singular insights * Guardian *Startlingly imaginative … The acrobatic leaps in Farley’s imagination make for a thrilling ride, and […] “sends a ripple through your heart” * Observer *Farley’s strength, throughout his career, is the delicacy of his poems’ music, their soft lighting and good humour, and this book is no exception * Poetry Book Society Bulletin *

Paul Farley was born in Liverpool in 1965 and studied at the Chelsea School of Art. He has published six collections of poetry with Picador. His other books include Edgelands (with Michael Symmons Roberts, 2011), and he has also edited a selection of John Clare’s poetry. A Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature and a frequent broadcaster, he has received numerous awards including Sunday Times Young Writer of the Year, the Whitbread Poetry Prize and the E. M. Forster Award from the American Academy of Arts & Letters. When It Rained For a Million Years is his sixth collection.