Rain
A compact poetry collection in which Paterson writes with directness and formal control, moving between rain, sea, family, and moments of elegy. The poems balance intimacy with a larger sense of uncertainty and weathered beauty.
Work Information
Poems that move between weather, family, and elegy.
A compact poetry collection in which Paterson writes with directness and formal control, moving between rain, sea, family, and moments of elegy. The poems balance intimacy with a larger sense of uncertainty and weathered beauty.
Book Information
- Publisher
- Faber & Faber
- Published
- 2009-09-03
- Pages
- 80 pages
- Language
- 英語
- Size
- 13.8 x 1 x 20.5 cm
- ISBN-13
- 9780571249572
- ISBN-10
- 0571249574
- Price
- 28210 JPY
- Category
- 洋書/Literature & Fiction
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.
Don Paterson was born in Dundee in 1963. His poetry has won many awards, including the Whitbread Poetry Prize, the Geoffrey Faber Memorial Prize, the Costa Poetry Award, all three Forward Prizes and, on two occasions, the T. S. Eliot Prize. He was awarded the Queen's Gold Medal for Poetry in 2009. He is Professor Emeritus at the University of St Andrews and, for over twenty-five years, was Poetry Editor at Picador Macmillan. He also works as a jazz musician.
Reviews
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Five Stars
love it
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All good
Good quality and delivered on time, thanks.
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Fast shipping - Interesting poems collection!
i recommend amazon.uk for purchases of any kind; the book was shipped asap and i truly appreciate it. i ordered this book because i had to do a paper on it and no one here in greece could provide me with it, except if i paid an extravaggant amount of money... which of course i didn't want to and obviously i didn't need to. Amazon.uk gave this product for a very low price and it was indeed of a very good quality. "Rain" was mostly as i expected, very interesting modern poetry, i will indeed cherish some of these poems, but in the end i felt like a tiny teeny bit was missing.. i don't know what, maybe i just expected more, cause i knew it was an awarded collection.. that's why i gave it 4 stars. as a whole i am very satisfied. :-)
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Poetry bundle
As a teacher of PJ Harvey its interesting to ake notice of his poetry. Of course a well known poet in his own right, his style is very robust
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OK
Bought for my daughter
Related Literary Awards
- Forward Prizes for Poetry Edition 18 (2009) ・Excellence Award