Dark Film

The Dark Film, Paul Farley s first collection since the highly acclaimed Tramp in Flames, expands the poet s research into the art of seeing , and all that humans project of themselves into the world. Farley s great poetic gift is his ability to switch between the local and the universal, the present and the historical past, with the most apparently effortless of gear changes; he brings to our immediate attention things previously hidden whether out of sight, in the periphery of our vision, or right under our noses. The Dark Film is a profound meditation on time, on the untold stories of our history, and on the act of human beholding as well as Farley s most richly entertaining and rewarding collection to date.