This new collection from Don Paterson, his first since the Forward
prize-winning Rain in 2009, is a series of forty sonnets. Some take
a more traditional form, some are highly experimental, but what
these poems share is a lyrical intelligence and musical gift that
has been visible in his work since his first book of poems, Nil
Nil, in 2009. Addressed to children, friends and enemies, the
living and the dead, musicians, poets and dogs, these poems display
an ambition in their scope and tonal range matched by the breadth
of their concerns. Here, voices call home from the blackout and the
airlock, the storm cave and the seance, the coalshed, the war, the
ringroad, the forest and the sea. These are voices frustrated by
distance, by shot glass and bar rail, by the dark, leaving the
'sound that fades up from the hiss, / like a glass some random
downdraught had set ringing, / now full of its only note, its
lonely call . . .' 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. This is a rich and accomplished new work from one of the
foremost poets writing in English today.
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