International Poetry Competition 1998 Geoffrey Dearmer Award 1998 Forward Poetry Prize for Best First Collection, The Boy from the Chemist is Here to See You 1999 Somerset Maugham Award 1999 Sunday Times Young Writer of the Year Award 2000 Arts Council Writer's Award 2002 Whitbread Poetry Award, The Ice Age 2005 Forward Poetry Prize for Best Single Poem, "Liverpool Disappears for a Billionth of a Second" 2007 Griffin International Poetry Prize, shortlist, Tramp in Flames 2009 Royal Society of Literature Jerwood Award for Non-Fiction, Edgelands 2009 E. M. Forster Award (American Academy of Arts & Letters) 2009 Travelling Scholarship of the Society of Authors 2012 Foyles Best Book of Ideas, Edgelands 2012 Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature 2013 Cholmondeley Award of the Society of Authors 2019 T. S. Eliot Prize, shortlist, The Mizzy 2019 Costa Poetry Award, shortlist, The Mizzy Works Bibliography The Boy from the Chemist is Here to See You (London: Picador, 1998) The Ice Age (London: Picador, 2002) Distant Voices, Still Lives (London: British Film Institute, 2006) (about the film of the same name by Terence Davies) Tramp in Flames (London: Picador, 2006) Field Recordings: BBC Poems (1998-2008) (London: Donut Press, 2009) The Atlantic Tunnel: Selected Poems (New York: Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2010) Edgelands: Journeys into England's True Wilderness (with Michael Symmons Roberts) (London: Jonathan Cape, 2011) The Dark Film (London: Picador, 2012) Selected Poems (London: Picador, 2014) Deaths of the Poets (with Michael Symmons Roberts) (London: Jonathan Cape, 2017) The Mizzy (London: Picador, 2019) Contributor to A New Divan: A Lyrical Dialogue Between East and West (Gingko Library, 2019). Contributor to Refractive Pool: Contemporary Painting in Liverpool (contains The Studio) (Refractive Pool, 2021). As Editor John Clare Selected Poems (London: Faber & Faber, 2010) References External links British Council -- Contemporary Writers: Paul Farley Poetry Archive--Profile, including audio clips Griffin Poetry Prize biography, including video clip Keynote speech at the 2008 Griffin Poetry Prize awards gala, including video clips Granta 102: The New Nature Writing The Guardian: In conversation: Mark Haddon and Paul Farley 57 Productions: Interview 57 Productions: Liverpool Disappears for a Billionth of a Second Intelligent Life: Interview The Observer: Once upon a life 1965 births Fellows of the Royal Society of Literature Living people Poets from Liverpool Academics of Lancaster University 21st-century British poets 21st-century English male writers English male poets