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An essential collection of poems from the acclaimed poet, who's won the Forward Prize for Best First Collection, the T.S. Eliot Prize, the Whitbread Award and the Queen's Gold Medal for Poetry. 'Don Paterson is quite simply the most interesting mid-career poet at work in the UK.' Paul Muldoon
Synopsis
Since his debut, "Nil Nil", won the Forward Prize for Best First Collection in 1993, the author has lit up the poetry scene in the UK. This selection is made by the author himself and includes not only those poems from his four single volumes, but his original adaptations of the poems of Antonio Machado and Rainer Maria Rilke.