We would like to thank Don Paterson–who was among our guests at Babel Festival last year–for granting us permission to publish this selection from his latest book of poems, 40 www.doorway.ru English and Italian translations have been commissioned by Specimen to poets Katerina Anghelaki-Rooke and Matteo Campagnoli, www.doorway.ruted Reading Time: 3 mins. · In Don Paterson’s 40 Sonnets, his first book since Rain, which won the Forward prize, there is a recurring sense of a shoreline. Wave makes this explicit and is a perfect subject for a Estimated Reading Time: 4 mins. This new collection from Don Paterson, his first since the Forward prize-winning Rain in , 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 Addressed to children, friends and enemies, the living and the dead, /5.
Originally from Dundee, Scotland, Don Paterson left school at 16 and moved to London to pursue music and join a band. He found success with the jazz-folk ensemble Lammas, but was captivated by poetry upon encountering poet Tony Harrison. Influenced by Coleridge, Paul Muldoon, Derek Mahon, and Michael Longley, Paterson devoted a year to reading before he began to write and publish in earnest. This new collection from Don Paterson, his first since the Forward prize-winning Rain in , 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 Addressed to children, friends and enemies, the. Don Paterson's 40 Sonnets does pretty much what it says on the dust-jacket. In doing so, it joins a noble band of sonnet cycles from Petrarch's Canzoniere to Shakespeare's , John Berryman's.
Don Paterson has written several collections of poems, including Nil Nil, God’s Gift to Women, Rain, The Eyes, and Landing Light, which won both the T. S. Eliot Prize and the Whitbread Prize for Poetry. He lives in Edinburgh. Start reading 40 Sonnets on your Kindle in under a minute. 40 Sonnets is published by Faber. To order a copy for £ (RRP £) go to www.doorway.ru or call Free UK pp over £10, online orders only. This new collection from Don Paterson, his first since the Forward prize-winning Rain in , 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 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.
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