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The Zoo of the New: A Book of Exceptional Poems from Sappho to Paul Muldoon by Don Paterson
Category: Poetry
'So open it anywhere, then anywhere, then anywhere again. We're sure it won't be long before you find a poem that brings you smack into the newness and strangeness of the living present, just as it did us' (from the Introduction)In The Zoo of the New, poets Don Paterson and Nick Laird have cast a fresh ...Show more
The Zoo of the New: Poems to Read Now by Don Paterson
Category: Poetry
'So open it anywhere, then anywhere, then anywhere again. We're sure it won't be long before you find a poem that brings you smack into the newness and strangeness of the living present, just as it did us' (from the Introduction) In The Zoo of the New, poets Don Paterson and Nick Laird have cast a fres ...Show more
Toy Fights: A Boyhood by Don Paterson
Category: Biography Memoir
This is a book about family, money and music but also about schizophrenia, hell, narcissists, debt and the working class, anger, swearing, drugs, books, football, love, origami, the peculiar insanity of Dundee, sugar, religious mania, the sexual excesses of the Scottish club band scene and, more general ...Show more
Train Songs: An Anthology by Don Paterson
Category: Fiction
"This is the night mail crossing the border, Bringing the cheque and the postal order..." (W.H. Auden). Wordsworth was the first laureate of locomotives: in fact he railed against them, and against the consequent opening up of the Lakes to holiday hordes ('On the Projected Kendal and Windermere Railway' ...Show more
Train Songs: Poetry of the Railway by Don Paterson
Category: Poetry
"This is the night mail crossing the border, Bringing the cheque and the postal order...". (W.H. Auden). Wordsworth was the first laureate of locomotives: in fact he railed against them, and against the consequent opening up of the Lakes to holiday hordes ('On the Projected Kendal and Windermere Railway ...Show more
Zonal by Don Paterson
Category: Poetry
Don Paterson's latest collection of poetry starts from the premise that the crisis of mid-life may be a permanent state of mind. Zonal is an experiment in science-fictional and fantastic autobiography, with all of its poems taking their imaginative cue from the first season of The Twilight Zone (1959-19 ...Show more
Zonal by Don Paterson
Category: Poetry
A classic television series, The Twilight Zone, sets off a genre-bending experiment in science-fiction, autobiography and all the spaces in-between.