Work Information

Private experience is transformed through exacting poetic craft.

A poetry collection on love and domestic life, rendered through wit, craft, and intimate observation.

Book Information

Publisher

Faber & Faber

Published

1997-05-01

Pages

58 pages

Language

英語

Size

12.9 x 0.7 x 19.8 cm

ISBN-13

9780571177622

ISBN-10

057117762X

Price

2271 JPY

Category

洋書/Literature & Fiction/Poetry/British

After the huge success of Nil Nil (a Poetry Book Society Choice and winner of the Forward Prize best first collection), Don Paterson's second collection was impatiently awaited. His readers were not disappointed. In God's Gift to Women , straight autobiography mixes with invention, exaggeration, technical dazzle and sheer cheek to produce a book quite unlike any other.

Don Paterson was born in Dundee, Scotland. His first collection of poetry, Nil Nil (1993) won the Forward Poetry Prize for Best First Collection. His following collection, God's Gift to Women (1997) won the T. S. Eliot Prize and the Geoffrey Faber Memorial Prize. Don Paterson's poetry collection, Landing Light , won the 2001 Whitbread Poetry Award, and also received the 2003 T. S. Eliot Prize - making him the first poet to have won the award twice. His latest poetry collection, 40 Sonnets, has been shortlisted for the Saltire Poetry Book of the Year award. He works as a musician and editor, teaches at the University of St Andrews, and lives in Kirriemuir, Scotland.

Related Literary Awards

• T. S. Eliot Prize Edition 5 (1997) ・Winner