Product Description

In this, his first volume of original verse since the award-winning Landing Light, Don Paterson is found writing at his most memorable and direct. In an assembly of masterful lyrics and monologues, he conjures a series of fables and charms that serve both to expose us to the unsettling forces within the world and simultaneously offer some protection against them. Whether outwardly elemental in their address, or more personal in their direction, these poems - to the rain and the sea, to his young sons or beloved friends - never shy from their inquiry into truth and lie, embracing everything in scope from the rangy narrative to the tiny renku. "Rain", which includes the winner of this year's Forward Prize for the Best Individual Poem and an extended elegy for the poet Michael Donaghy, is Don Paterson's most intimate and manifest collection to date.

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #502 in Books
• Published on: 2009-09-03
• Original language: English
• Binding: Hardcover
• 80 pages

About the Author
Don Paterson was born in Dundee in 1963. He works as a musician and editor and has written four collections of poems, Nil Nil (1993), God's Gift to Women (1997) - winner of both the T. S. Eliot Prize and the Geoffrey Faber Memorial Prize, The Eyes (1999) and Landing Light which won both the T. S. Eliot Prize and the Whitbread Prize for Poetry. He lives in Kirriemuir, Angus. Find out more about Don Paterson at his own website: www.donpaterson.com

Customer Reviews

Brilliant
In my opinion the best modern poet and his best work. I loved it from start to finish. Im no good at reviews, but your obviously reading this for confirmation that you want to buy it, so go ahead, you wont be let down.