God's Gift to Women Don Paterson

Name: God's Gift to Women By Don Paterson
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God's Gift to Women by Don Paterson

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Summary

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. 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.

God's Gift to Women Summary

God's Gift to Women by Don Paterson

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.

God's Gift to Women Reviews

'A terrific, intelligent, lyrical, delicate, lovely piece of work.' A. L. Kennedy 'It is the very height of his standards that set him apart. He remains one of the best young poets around.' John Redmond; 'Lyrical yet austere, straight-talking but at ease with eloquence... some of the most outstanding poems published this year.' Helen Dunmore

About Don Paterson

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 of Poetry 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.

Additional information

Sku

GOR001304616

ISBN 13

9780571177622

ISBN 10

057117762X

Title

God's Gift to Women by Don Paterson

Author

Don Paterson

Condition

Used - Very Good

Binding type

Paperback

Publisher

Faber & Faber

Year published

20050106

Number of pages

Prizes

Winner of T S Eliot Prize 1997

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