Paul Farley
Praise for Deaths of the Poets
A rollicking mixture of literary biography, commentary, travelogue and anecdotage, much of it deeply amusing.
Claire Harman, Evening Standard
So much material of such innate interest is presented with just the right balance of panache, wit, insight and elegy… A good, clever, kindly and enjoyable book it is, like eavesdropping on two smarter frie ...
Stuart Kelly, Scotland on Sunday
Deaths of the Poets is packed with anecdotes and macabre frisons; its forays through some of poetry’s more sensational edge-lands make for a compelling read.
Nicholas Roe, Literary Review
A rollicking mixture of literary biography, commentary, travelogue and anecdotage, much of it deeply amusing.
Claire Harman, Evening Standard
So much material of such innate interest is presented with just the right balance of panache, wit, insight and elegy… A good, clever, kindly and enjoyable book it is, like eavesdropping on two smarter frie ...
Stuart Kelly, Scotland on Sunday
Deaths of the Poets is packed with anecdotes and macabre frisons; its forays through some of poetry’s more sensational edge-lands make for a compelling read.
Nicholas Roe, Literary Review
A rollicking mixture of literary biography, commentary, travelogue and anecdotage, much of it deeply amusing.
Claire Harman, Evening Standard
So much material of such innate interest is presented with just the right balance of panache, wit, insight and elegy… A good, clever, kindly and enjoyable book it is, like eavesdropping on two smarter frie ...
Stuart Kelly, Scotland on Sunday
Deaths of the Poets is packed with anecdotes and macabre frisons; its forays through some of poetry’s more sensational edge-lands make for a compelling read.
Nicholas Roe, Literary Review