40 Sonnets by Don Paterson (English) Paperback Book

Description: 40 Sonnets by Don Paterson Winner of the 2015 Costa Poetry Award. A new collection from the award-winning and much-loved poet. FORMAT Paperback LANGUAGE English CONDITION Brand New Publisher Description This new collection from Don Paterson, his first since the Forward prize-winning Rain in 2009, is a series of forty sonnets. Some take a more traditional form, some are highly experimental, but what these poems share is a lyrical intelligence and musical gift that has been visible in his work since his first book of poems, Nil Nil, in 2009. Addressed to children, friends and enemies, the living and the dead, musicians, poets and dogs, these poems display an ambition in their scope and tonal range matched by the breadth of their concerns. Here, voices call home from the blackout and the airlock, the storm cave and the seance, the coalshed, the war, the ringroad, the forest and the sea. These are voices frustrated by distance, by shot glass and bar rail, by the dark, leaving the sound that fades up from the hiss, / like a glass some random downdraught had set ringing, / now full of its only note, its lonely call . . .In 40 Sonnets Paterson returns to some of his central themes - contradiction and strangeness, tension and transformation, the dream world, and the divided self - in some of the most powerful and formally assured poems he has written to date. This is a rich and accomplished new work from one of the foremost poets writing in English today. Notes Paperback edition of this 2015 Costa Poetry Award-winning collection. Author Biography Don Paterson was born in Dundee in 1963. His previous poetry collections include Nil Nil, Gods Gift to Women,Landing Light and Rain. He has also published two books of aphorism, as well as translations of Antonio Machado and Rainer Maria Rilke. His poetry has won many awards, including the Whitbread Poetry Prize, the Geoffrey Faber Memorial Prize and all three Forward Prizes; he is currently the only poet to have won the T. S. Eliot Prize twice. He was awarded the Queens Gold Medal for Poetry in 2009. He is a Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature, the English Association and the Royal Society of Edinburgh, and is currently Professor of Poetry at the University of St Andrews. Since 1997 he has been poetry editor at Picador Macmillan, and he also works as a jazz musician and composer. He lives in Edinburgh. Promotional WINNER OF THE 2015 COSTA POETRY AWARD. A new collection from the award-winning and much-loved poet. Prizes Winner of Costa Poetry Award 2015 Long Description Winner of the 2015 Costa Poetry Award. A new collection from the award-winning and much-loved poet. This new collection from Don Paterson, his first since the Forward prize-winning Rain in 2009, is a series of forty sonnets. Some take a more traditional form, some are highly experimental, but what these poems share is a lyrical intelligence and musical gift that has been visible in his work since his first book of poems, Nil Nil , in 2009. Addressed to children, friends and enemies, the living and the dead, musicians, poets and dogs, these poems display an ambition in their scope and tonal range matched by the breadth of their concerns. Here, voices call home from the blackout and the airlock, the storm cave and the seance, the coalshed, the war, the ringroad, the forest and the sea. These are voices frustrated by distance, by shot glass and bar rail, by the dark, leaving the sound that fades up from the hiss, / like a glass some random downdraught had set ringing, / now full of its only note, its lonely call . . . In 40 Sonnets Paterson returns to some of his central themes - contradiction and strangeness, tension and transformation, the dream world, and the divided self - in some of the most powerful and formally assured poems he has written to date. This is a rich and accomplished new work from one of the foremost poets writing in English today. Promotional "Headline" WINNER OF THE 2015 COSTA POETRY AWARD. A new collection from the award-winning and much-loved poet. Details ISBN0571310915 Author Don Paterson Year 2016 ISBN-10 0571310915 ISBN-13 9780571310913 Media Book Pages 56 Publisher Faber & Faber Imprint Faber & Faber Place of Publication London Country of Publication United Kingdom DEWEY 821.914 Birth 1963 Edition Main Format Paperback Language English UK Release Date 2016-09-01 AU Release Date 2016-09-01 Edition Description Main Publication Date 2016-09-01 Audience General NZ Release Date 2016-09-27 We've got this At The Nile, if you're looking for it, we've got it. With fast shipping, low prices, friendly service and well over a million items - you're bound to find what you want, at a price you'll love! TheNile_Item_ID:99119489;

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