40 Sonnets by Don Paterson
.' 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.
Don Paterson was born in Dundee in 1963. His previous poetry collections include Nil Nil, God's 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 Queen's 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.
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| ISBN 13 | 9780571310890 |
| ISBN 10 | 0571310893 |
| Title | 40 Sonnets |
| Author | Don Paterson |
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| Binding Type | Hardback |
| Publisher | Faber & Faber |
| Year published | 2015-09-03 |
| Number of pages | 56 |
| Prizes | Winner of Costa Poetry Award 2015, Short-listed for T S Eliot Prize 2015 |
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