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Reading Shakespeare's Sonnets: A New Commentary by Don Paterson
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Category: Performing Arts Drama Plays | Series: Faber Poetry Ser.
"Shakespeare's Sonnets" are as important and vital today as they were when first published four hundred years ago. Perhaps no collection of verse before or since has so captured the imagination of readers and lovers; certainly no poem has come under such intense critical scrutiny, and presented the read ...Show more
Selected Poems by Don Paterson
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Category: Poetry | Reading Level: very good
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
The Golden Treasury of Scottish Verse by Kathleen Jamie (Editor); Don Paterson (Editor)
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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 Poem : Lyric, Sign, Metre by Don Paterson
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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
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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
The Zoo of the New: A Book of Exceptional Poems from Sappho to Paul Muldoon by Don Paterson
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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
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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
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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
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Category: Anthologies
"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
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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
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