Rain
Author(s): Don Paterson
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.
General Information
- :
- : Faber and Faber
- : Faber and Faber
- : 0.105
- : 31 December 2011
- : United Kingdom
- : 01 January 2012
- : books
Other Specifications
- : Don Paterson
- : Paperback
- : 2
- : 821.914
- : 80
More About The Product
'Paterson is simply one of the best living poets in the UK.' Jackie Kay, Observer
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
