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Selected Poems by Don Paterson
Category: Poetry
Since his debut, "Nil Nil", won the Forward Prize for Best First Collection in 1993, Don Paterson has lit up the poetry scene in the U.K. His dazzling, intensely lyric and luminous verse has delighted readers ever since, and won many awards along the way. "God's Gift Women" took the T. S. Eliot Prize in ...Show more
Selected Poems by Don Paterson
Category: Poetry & Plays
Since his debut, Nil Nil, won the Forward Prize for Best First Collection in 1993, Don Paterson has lit up the poetry scene in the U.K. His dazzling, intensely lyric and luminous verse has delighted readers ever since, and won many awards along the way. God's Gift Women took the T. S. Eliot Prize in 199 ...Show more
Ten Poems from Scotland by DON PATERSON
Category: Poetry
The ten poems in our revised and updated edition offer a taste of the poetry of Scotland. Some poems explore ideas around identity and change, exile and belonging. Others focus on landscape and place, or are principally about language itself. As Don Paterson writes in his vivid introduction, Scottish po ...Show more
The Arctic by Don Paterson
Category: Poetry
'The Arctic' in Don Paterson's powerful new collection is the name of a bar frequented by the survivors of several kinds of apocalypse. The poems gathered here are as various as the clientele: elegies for the poet's musician father; tales of the love lives of gods and the childhoods of psychopaths; trou ...Show more
The Arctic by Don Paterson
Category: Poetry
The Arctic is Don Paterson's most moving and eclectic collection since Landing Light, Winner of the Whitbread and the T. S. Eliot Prize - and is now published in paperback. 'The Arctic' in Don Paterson's powerful new collection is the name of a bar frequented by the survivors of several kinds of apocaly ...Show more
The Blind Eye by Don Paterson
Category: Humour
A collection of funny, irreverent and wise aphorisms that intends to not only entertain, but also lead us to ponder on the dark and light that make up the human condition.
The Fall at Home - New and Collected Aphorisms by Don Paterson
Category: Poetry
Aphorisms have been described as 'the obscure hinterland between poetry and prose' (New Yorker) - short pithy statements that capture the essence of the human condition in all its shades. In this New and Selected, master of the form Don Paterson brings the best examples from his two previous volumes tog ...Show more
The Fall at Home - New and Collected Aphorisms by Don Paterson
Category: Languages and Reference
The best of Paterson's 'clever, addictive and funny' aphorisms - now in paperback.
The Golden Treasury of Scottish Verse by Kathleen Jamie (Editor); Don Paterson (Editor)
Category: Poetry
A timeless gift edition of the greatest poetic works from Scotland's literary past, present and future. Edited by award-winning poets Kathleen Jamie, Don Paterson and Peter Mackay.
The Picador Book of Funeral Poems by Don Paterson
Category: Poetry
Designed for those in need of poetic solace, and a gift book for the recently bereaved, it is also intended as a book to read from at memorial ceremonies, when judging the tone and hitting the right note is everything
The Poem : Lyric, Sign, Metre by Don Paterson
Category: Poetry | Series: Faber Poetry Ser.
The Poem attempts to answer several questions: what is a poem? In what way is its use of language distinct? What conditions allow it to arise, and what is its cultural purpose? And how, exactly, do poems work ? Part polemic, part technical treatise and part meditation, The Poem is an ambitious contempor ...Show more
The Poem - Lyric, Sign, Metre by Don Paterson
Category: Poetry
Don Paterson is not only one of our great poets, but also an esteemed authority on the art of poetry. In illuminating and engaging prose, he offers his treatise on the making and the philosophy of 'the poem'.Paterson unpicks the process of verse composition with ambition, scholarly flair, and occasional ...Show more