Paul Farley is an acclaimed author whose poetry offers a keen insight into the world around us. His works explore the fabric of reality, often focusing on ordinary objects and experiences to which he brings poetic depth. Farley's style is characterized by its precision, intelligence, and the ability to reveal unexpected connections. His poetry engages readers with its original perspective and literary quality.
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.