Paul Farley FRSL (born 1965) is a British poet, writer and broadcaster.
He studied painting at the Chelsea School of Art, and has lived in London, Brighton and Cumbria.
[4][circular reference] In 2004, Farley was named as one of the Poetry Book Society's Next Generation poets[5] His third collection, Tramp in Flames(2006), was shortlisted for the Griffin Poetry Prize,[6] a poem from which, ‘Liverpool Disappears for a Billionth of a Second’, was awarded the Forward Prize for Best Individual Poem.
[7] The same year he also published a study of Terence Davies' film, Distant Voices, Still Lives.
[10] His fourth collection The Dark Film, was a Poetry Book Society Choice in 2012.