 From 2000-2002 he was the poet-in-residence at the Wordsworth Trust in Grasmere.His second collection, "The Ice Age" (2002), received the Whitbread Poetry Award.In 2004, Farley was named as one of the Poetry Book Society's Next Generation poets His third collection, "Tramp in Flames"(2006), was shortlisted for the Griffin Poetry Prize,a poem from which, ‘Liverpool Disappears for a Billionth of a Second’, was awarded the Forward Prize for Best Individual Poem.