Paul Farley es un aclamado autor cuya poesía ofrece una aguda visión del mundo que nos rodea. Sus obras exploran la urdimbre de la realidad, centrándose a menudo en objetos y experiencias ordinarias a las que aporta profundidad poética. El estilo de Farley se caracteriza por su precisión, inteligencia y la capacidad de revelar conexiones inesperadas. Su poesía atrae a los lectores por su perspectiva original y calidad literaria.
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.