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When It Rained for a Million Years by Paul Farley Chatto & Windus creams and lotionsA family cohabits with a horse; a pine marten narrates its own wildlife documentary; a man is betrothed to a reed bed; the giant flag crossing a football crowd has a strange effect on those under it; a desperate migrant falls from the sky; a rampaging fifty foot poem brings terror to a city . . . As always in Paul Farley's work, the quotidian and the cosmic are braided together in surprising, funny, or disconcerting ways. And as always, the poems