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| Author | : Don Paterson |
| Publisher | : Faber & Faber |
| Total Pages | : 138 |
| Release | : 2018-10-02 |
| Genre | : Literary Criticism |
| ISBN | : 0571338232 |
Aphorisms have been described as 'the obscure hinterland between poetry and prose' (New Yorker) - short pithy statements that capture the essence of the human condition in all its shades. In this New and Selected, master of the form Don Paterson brings the best examples from his three previous volumes together with ingenious new material relevant to today's world. Moving and mischievous, canny and profound - these wide-ranging observations of no more than one or two lines demonstrate that the aphorism is the perfect form for our times. Consciousness is the turn the universe makes to hasten its own end. * Agnosticism is indulged only by those who have never suffered belief. * Poet: someone in the aphorism business for the money.
| Author | : Don Paterson |
| Publisher | : Faber & Faber |
| Total Pages | : 572 |
| Release | : 2018-05-22 |
| Genre | : Literary Criticism |
| ISBN | : 0571341144 |
Don Paterson is not only one of our great poets, but also an esteemed authority on the art of poetry. In illuminating and engaging prose, he offers his treatise on the making and the philosophy of 'the poem'.Paterson unpicks the process of verse composition with ambition, scholarly flair, and occasional scurrilities, exploring the mechanics of how a poem works and, essentially, what a poem is. His findings take the form of three essays that make up the three sections of the book: 'Lyric' attends to the sound of the poem; 'Sign' envisages ideas of poetic meaning; while 'Metre' studies its underlying rhythms. Through his various professional guises - as poetry editor at Picador Macmillan, professor of poetry at the University of St Andrews, and major prize-winning poet - no one is better placed to grant this 'insider's perspective'. For all those intrigued by the inner workings of the art form and its fundamental secrets, The Poem will surprise and delight.
| Author | : Don Paterson |
| Publisher | : Farrar, Straus and Giroux |
| Total Pages | : 87 |
| Release | : 2014-09-09 |
| Genre | : Poetry |
| ISBN | : 1466880686 |
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 to offer some protection against them. Whether outwardly elemental in their address or more personal in their direction, these poems—addressed 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 Paterson's most intimate and manifest collection to date.
| Author | : Don Paterson |
| Publisher | : Pan Macmillan |
| Total Pages | : 145 |
| Release | : 2012-01-06 |
| Genre | : Poetry |
| ISBN | : 1447204239 |
In our deepest grief we still turn instinctively to poetry for solace. These poems, drawn from many different ages and cultures, remind us that the experience of parting is a timelessly human one: however alone the loss of a loved one leaves us, our mourning is also something that deeply unites us; these poems of parting and passing, of sorrow and healing, will find a deep echo within those who find themselves dealing with grief or bereavement. Whatever our loss, it is assuaged in finding a voice – and whether that voice is one of private remembrance or public memorial, The Picador Book of Funeral Poems will help you towards it.
| Author | : Don Paterson |
| Publisher | : Pan Macmillan |
| Total Pages | : 228 |
| Release | : 2005 |
| Genre | : Literary Criticism |
| ISBN | : 9780330431842 |
Aphorism (n.): a pithy observation which contains a general truth 'All my teachers have been women. Though several men have taken me aside for an hour to tell me things they know' The Book of Shadows contains several hundred reflections and aphorisms on love, God, art, sex, death, work, and the spirit, imagination and conduct of the human animal. Writing with the same mixture of high seriousness, dark humour and lyric precision that define his poetry, Don Paterson has made a book to carry everywhere and open anywhere - to brighten or darken the moment, but always to administer a jolt to the idling mind. 'Falling and flying are near-identical sensations, in all but one final detail. We should remember this when we see those men and women seemingly in love with their own decline'
| Author | : Don Paterson |
| Publisher | : Graywolf Press |
| Total Pages | : 0 |
| Release | : 2008-08-05 |
| Genre | : Humor |
| ISBN | : 9781555975050 |
"Contentious, rude, hilarious, moving, and truthful. A book you'll dip into for the rest of your life." —Ian Rankin The male genitals are worn externally as evolution is in the process of expelling them from the body. Another million years and they'll be stored in a drawer. With Best Thought, Worst Thought, the award-winning Scottish poet Don Paterson has assembled a comic, intelligent, and cranky collection of brief truths and conjectures and, in the process, revitalizes the classic pith of the aphorism. "The form's only virtue is its brevity," Paterson writes; "at least the reader cannot seriously hold that it has wasted their time."
| Author | : Don Paterson |
| Publisher | : |
| Total Pages | : 0 |
| Release | : 2022-03-17 |
| Genre | : Poetry |
| ISBN | : 9780571338252 |
A classic television series, The Twilight Zone, sets off a genre-bending experiment in science-fiction, autobiography and all the spaces in-between.
| Author | : James Reese |
| Publisher | : Harper Collins |
| Total Pages | : 638 |
| Release | : 2009-10-13 |
| Genre | : Fiction |
| ISBN | : 0061739561 |
Alone among the young girls taught by nuns at a convent school in nineteenth-century France, orphaned Herculine has neither wealth nor social connections. When she's accused of being a witch, the shy student is locked up with no hope of escape ... until her rescue by a real witch, the beautiful, mysterious Sebastiana. Swept away to the witch's manor, Herculine will enter a fantastic, erotic world to discover her true nature -- and her destiny -- in this breathtaking, darkly sensual first novel.
| Author | : Don Paterson |
| Publisher | : |
| Total Pages | : 58 |
| Release | : 1997 |
| Genre | : Poetry |
| ISBN | : 9780571177622 |
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.
| Author | : Ben Wilkinson |
| Publisher | : Oxford University Press |
| Total Pages | : 160 |
| Release | : 2021 |
| Genre | : |
| ISBN | : 1800855370 |
Don Paterson is one of Britain's leading contemporary poets. In the first comprehensive study of Paterson's poetry, Ben Wilkinson traces the poet's development from collection to collection, providing detailed close readings framed by theoretical and literary contexts. An essential guide for students, specialists, and the general reader of contemporary poetry.
