Rain

In this, his first volume of original verse since the award-winning Landing Light, Don Paterson is found writing at his most memorable and direct. In an assembly of masterful lyrics and monologues, he conjures a series of fables and charms that serve both to expose us to the unsettling forces within the world and simultaneously offer some protection against them. Whether outwardly elemental in their address, or more personal in their direction, these poems - to the rain and the sea, to his young sons or beloved friends - never shy from their inquiry into truth and lie, embracing everything in scope from the rangy narrative to the tiny renku. "Rain", which includes the winner of this year's Forward Prize for the Best Individual Poem and an extended elegy for the poet Michael Donaghy, is Don Paterson's most intimate and manifest collection to date.

ISBN 0571249574   Pages 80 ISBN13 9780571249572 (What's this?)   Weight (grammes) 197 Publisher Faber and Faber   Published in London Imprint Faber and Faber   Height (mm) 205 Format Hardback   Width (mm) 138 Publication date 03 Sep 2009   Spine width (mm) 10 DEWEY 821.914   Academic level General DEWEY edition DC22

		Two Trees		3
		The Error		4
		For Once		5
		The Swing		6
		The Handspring		8
		Why Do You Stay Up So Late?		9
		The Circle		10
		The Rain at Sea		12
		The Human Shield		14
		The Lie		15
		Correctives		16
		Song for Natalie 'Tusja' Beridze		17
		Renku: My Last Thirty-Five Deaths		22
		Unfold		31
		The Bathysphere		33
		The Story of the Blue Flower		36
		Parallax		38
		Motive		39
		The Day		40
		The Poetry		43
		Sky Song		44
		March Wind		45
		The Wind		46
		The Landscape		47
		The Bowl-Maker		48
		Miguel		49
		Verse		50
		Phantom		51
		Rain		60

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