'The Arctic' in Don Paterson's powerful new collection is the name
of a bar frequented by the survivors of several kinds of
apocalypse. The poems gathered here are as various as the
clientele: elegies for the poet's musician father; tales of the
love lives of gods and the childhoods of psychopaths; troubled
encounters between men and women; odes to movies and the male
anatomy; studies of art and ambition, politics and parenthood.
Other voices enter the fray in renderings of Cavafy, Montale and
the Chilean poet Gabriela Mistral. And in the fourth part of
Paterson's ongoing poem 'The Alexandrian Library', the
poet-as-amateur scientist - from a weather station at the top of
Ben Nevis to the cellar of The Arctic - bears witness to the
imminence of man-made extinction. By turns urgent, railing and
tender, these are poems of and for our times, by one of our most
celebrated and formally adventurous writers.
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