Flim Forum is an independent press for the publication of contemporary poetry. Founded in 2005, Flim Forum provides SPACE for emerging poets working in a variety of experimental modes.

Flim Forum is excited to announce our latest publication, The Problem of Boredom in Paradise: Selected Poems by Paul Hannigan. Read more about the book and Hannigan’s life, or peruse some sample poems and original drawings: www.paulhannigan.blogspot.com.

Paul Hannigan (1936-2000), a Boston-area poet most active during the late 60s, early 70s, with ties to poets and writers from that time and place, including: Fanny Howe, Bill Knott, William Corbett, DeWitt Henry, Tom Lux, and James Tate. The Problem of Boredom in Paradise contains poems from a young Hannigan’s A Theory of Learning (1966), the chapbook Holland and the Netherlands (Jim Randall’s Pym-Randall Press, 1970), selections from his books Laughing (Houghton-Mifflin, 1970) and The Carnation (Tom Lux’s Barn Dream Press, 1972), and the entirety of Bringing Back Slavery (Dolphin Editions, 1976). Also: a large portion of an unpublished manuscript The Higher Slum (1975), an assortment of other unpublished works from the 80s and 90s, and a few original drawings.

The first 100 copies sold directly through Flim  will also come with a copy of New Australia, a limited edition chapbook of an unpublished Paul Hannigan poem from the late 90s. New Australia, in the style of Hannigan’s chapbooks from the 70s, was assembled by Flim Forum to celebrate the release of The Problem of Boredom in Paradise.