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Don Paterson : contemporary critical essays / edited by Natalie Pollard

Published
Edinburgh : Edinburgh University Press, [2014]
Copyright Date
©2014
Physical Description
xi, 163 pages ; 25 cm
Additional Creators
Pollard, Natalie

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Contents
Machine generated contents note: pt. I PATTERNS AND PATERSON: FORMS, TECHNIQUES, HISTORIES -- 1.Don Paterson's Ars Poetica / Derek Attridge -- 2.Golden Means: Music, Translation and the Patersonnet / Hugh Haughton -- 3.No-Score Drawing: Postmodern Games in Don Paterson / Edward Larrissy -- 4.Cleaving Nothing from Nothing: Post-Romantic Negation and Affirmation in Don Paterson / Michael O'Neill -- 5.Form in Poetry / Derek Attridge -- pt. II POETRY IN ITS PLACE: RESPONSES AND RESPONSIBILITIES -- 6.Scotland, Britain and The Elsewhere of Poetry / Gerard Carruthers -- 7.On Spirituality and Transcendence / Jo George -- 8.Hiding in Full View: Dark Material and Light Writing / Natalie Pollard -- 9.Punching Yourself in the Face: Don Paterson and his Readers / Peter Robinson -- 10.The Publishing of Poetry / Matthew Sperling.
Summary
This is the first collection of critical essays on the prize-winning contemporary British poet, Don Paterson. In 10 original chapters, leading literary critics and writers discuss the social, historical and personal dimensions of Paterson's poetry and prose including 'Rain', 'Orpheus', 'Landing Light', 'The Eyes', 'God's Gift to Women', 'Nil Nil', 'The Book of Shadows' and 'Reading Shakespeare's Sonnets'. A critical introduction and an opening interview with Don Paterson clearly situate his work in dialogue with the Modernist, Movement, contemporary and theoretical voices that inform it. The book shows that Paterson is a figure who actively negotiates his place within literary history, as well as confronting that history with lyric grace, humour and directness. It is the first critical study of Don Paterson's writing. Web-based recordings by Don Paterson of the poems that are discussed in the volume available on the EUP website. 10 new critical essays, by contributors including Derek Attridge and John Kinsella, an introduction, an interview with Don Paterson, a biography and bibliography. It explores Paterson's Scottish contexts, his aphorisms, his poetic theory and lyric practice, his sonnets, his irony and modes of speech as well as translation, spirituality, father-son relations, the poetry avant-garde and poetry publishing.
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ISBN
9780748669417 (hbk.)
0748669418 (hbk.)
9780748669424 (ebook)
Bibliography Note
Includes bibliographical references (pages 153-158) and index.
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