Don Paterson has written several collections of poems, including Nil Nil, God’s Gift to Women, Rain, The Eyes, and Landing Light, which won both the T. S. Eliot Prize and the Whitbread Prize for Poetry. He lives in Edinburgh. Start reading 40 Sonnets on your Kindle in under a minute/5(28). Out of a single form, Paterson makes a great variety of poetic experiences. Much of the fun in 40 Sonnets is in watching how the form shifts from poem to poem and in watching how Paterson’s various approaches interact with the sonnet’s illustrious history. Benjamin Myers Oklahoma Baptist UniversityEstimated Reading Time: 3 mins. · 40 Sonnets is his eighth poetry collection, which illustrates his ease and ingenuity with the sonnet form. Presumably, it comes as a natural consequence of editing Faber’s Sonnets (), and penning a new commentary on the complete sonnets of Shakespeare in Estimated Reading Time: 4 mins.
40 Sonnets review - the perfect vehicle for Don Paterson's craft and lyricism. To order 40 Sonnets for £ (£) go to www.doorway.ru or call Free UK pp. 40 Sonnets by Don Paterson review - playful poems from a master. Extraordinary, beautiful or funny - these poems from an expert in rhythm and rhyme stay with you. Don Paterson's 40 Sonnets does pretty much what it says on the dust-jacket. In doing so, it joins a noble band of sonnet cycles from Petrarch's Canzoniere to Shakespeare's , John Berryman's.
This collection, which won the Costa Poetry Award, is an exhibition of the Dundee-born poet’s stunningly accomplished adoption of the sonnet’s ancient structure. This collection from Don Paterson, his first since the Forward Prize–winning Rain in , is a series of forty luminous sonnets. Some take a traditional form, while others experiment with the reader’s conception of the sonnet, but they all share the lyrical intelligence and musical gift that has made Paterson one of. Out of a single form, Paterson makes a great variety of poetic experiences. Much of the fun in 40 Sonnets is in watching how the form shifts from poem to poem and in watching how Paterson’s various approaches interact with the sonnet’s illustrious history. Benjamin Myers Oklahoma Baptist University. Review: 40 Sonnets – Don Paterson. Review by Ellen Cranitch. When, in , Lady Mary Wroth wrote her sonnet In this strange labyrinth how shall I turn.., she could have been speaking for Don Paterson. Paterson has spent more time than most in that selfsame sonnet-labyrinth, navigating its contours and sounding its depths.
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