Rain

Paperback / softback

Main Details

Title Rain
Authors and Contributors      By (author) Don Paterson
Physical Properties
Format:Paperback / softback
Pages:80
Dimensions(mm): Height 198,Width 126
Category/GenrePoetry by individual poets
ISBN/Barcode 9780571268580
ClassificationsDewey:821.914
Audience
General
Edition Main

Publishing Details

Publisher Faber & Faber
Imprint Faber & Faber
Publication Date 5 August 2010
Publication Country United Kingdom

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 light 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.

Author Biography

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, Scotland.