Dear Screen-L: The British Film Institute is pleased to announce the publication of: Distant Voices, Still Lives Paul Farley is a poet, broadcaster and lecturer in creative writing at Lancaster University. His first collection of poetry, _The Boy from the Chemist is Here to See You_ won a Forward Prize and the Somerset Maugham Award, and his second, _The Ice Age_ was awarded the Whitbread Poetry Prize in 2003. He was named_ Sunday Times_ Young Writer of the Year in 1999. A new collection of poems will be published in 2006. http://go.ucpress.edu/Farley 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. Paul Farley's study of the film is both a personal response, as a Liverpudlian and as a poet, and an exploration of Davies's unique visual style, blending the spaces-the "short halls, stairways, coal cellars and meter cupboards of northern England"-and sounds-the BBC shipping forecast, a pub sing-a-long, the strains of Vaughan Williams and Britten-of memory. British Film Institute books are distributed in North America and Asia by the University of California Press. Full information about the bookis available online: http://go.ucpress.edu/Farley -- Lolita Guevarra Electronic Marketing Coordinator University of California Press Tel. 510.643.4738 | Fax 510.643.7127 [log in to unmask] ---- For past messages, visit the Screen-L Archives: http://bama.ua.edu/archives/screen-l.html