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  • Reading Shakespeare's Sonnets

    A New Commentary

    by Don Paterson ...
    Shakespeare's Sonnets are as important and vital today as they were when first published four hundred years ago. Perhaps no collection of verse before or since has so captured the imagination of readers and lovers; certainly no poem has come under such intense critical scrutiny, and presented the reader with such a bewildering number of alternative interpretations. In this illuminating and often ... Read more

    $12.99 CAD

  • Selected Poems

    by Don Paterson ...
    Since his debut, Nil Nil, won the Forward Prize for Best First Collection in 1993, Don Paterson has lit up the poetry scene in the U.K. His dazzling, intensely lyric and luminous verse has delighted readers ever since, and won many awards along the way. God's Gift Women took the T. S. Eliot Prize in 1997, Landing Light won it again in 2003 and the Whitbread Award besides, and Rain (2009), his most ... Read more

    $12.99 CAD

  • The Poem

    Lyric, Sign, Metre

    by Don Paterson ...
    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 ... Read more

    $21.99 CAD

  • Toy Fights

    A Boyhood

    by Don Paterson ...
    “It’s wonderful, aggressively wise, and always—especially at its most serious—devastatingly funny.” —Geoff DyerFor readers of Douglas Stuart and Nick Hornby comes an uproarious, tenderhearted memoir of growing up in working-class Dundee in the 1970s and 1980s.Don Paterson is one of our most acclaimed contemporary poets, possessed of “an infinite sensitivity to the world” (Zadie Smith). But his ... Read more

    $18.99 CAD

    Also available as: Audiobook

    Also available as: Audiobook

  • Rain

    Poems

    by Don Paterson ...
    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 ... Read more

    $14.39 CAD

  • The Golden Treasury of Scottish Verse

    Edited by Kathleen Jamie, Don Paterson, Peter Mackay ...
    The Golden Treasury of Scottish Verse is a timeless collection of Scottish poetry. It contains over three hundred poems ranging from the early medieval period to the twenty-first century, and paints a full-colour portrait of Scotland’s poetic heritage and culture.Edited and introduced by award-winning poets Kathleen Jamie, Don Paterson and Peter Mackay, and including poems by Robert Burns, Carol ... Read more

    $23.09 CAD

  • 40 Sonnets

    by Don Paterson ...
    This collection, which won the 2015 Costa Poetry Award, is an exhibition of the Dundee-born poet's stunningly accomplished adoption of the sonnet's ancient structureThis collection from Don Paterson, his first since the Forward Prize–winning Rain in 2009, is a series of forty luminous sonnets. Some take a traditional form, while others experiment with the reader's conception of the sonnet, but ... Read more

    $14.39 CAD

  • Rain

    by Don Paterson ...
    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 ... Read more

    $9.99 CAD

  • The Picador Book of Funeral Poems

    by Don Paterson ...
    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 ... Read more

    $12.99 CAD

  • Audiobook

    Toy Fights

    A Boyhood

    by Don Paterson ...
    Narrated by Don Paterson ...

    Unabridged

    9 hours 49 min

    For fans of Douglas Stuart and Nick Hornby comes an uproarious, tenderhearted memoir of growing up in working-class Dundee in the 1970s and 1980s.Don Paterson is one of our most acclaimed contemporary poets, possessed of "an infinite sensitivity to the world" (Zadie Smith). But his current standing gives few hints of his hilariously misspent youth. An indifferent student prone to obsessions (with ... Read more

    $27.99 CAD

    Also available as: eBook

    Also available as: eBook

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    A collection of poems I have kept since I was 13-17 years old. They're all varying in different subjects but mostly it's about what I imagine certain things must have been like. ... Read more

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    THE SHORT STORIES OF N.G. DIAN* He Put A Flower In My Hair* I Know I Miss You* The Miracle of My Aunt's Hands ... Read more

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