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Dec 2, 2024 | 
panmacmillan.com | Don Paterson
The 2016 National Poet for Scotland was born in Edinburgh in 1961 and grew up in Glasgow. She has written all her life, and several of her adult poetry collections have won or been shortlisted for awards.
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Aug 25, 2024 | 
yorkshiretimes.co.uk | Douglas Dunn |Alan Payne |Ian Duhig |Don Paterson
artsModern LoveIt is summer, and we are in a houseThat is not ours, sitting at a tableEnjoying minutes of a rented silence,The upstairs people gone. The pigeons lullTo sleep the under-tens and invalids,The tree shakes out its shadows to the grass,The roses rove through the wilds of my neglect.
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Aug 19, 2024 | 
yorkshiretimes.co.uk | Alan Payne |Ian Duhig |Don Paterson |Matt Howard
artsSkew HillSheffieldMy mother’s ashesscatteredbetweenflinty showers;a resolutionat last of allthat reaching outtowards others. Her desireto be usefulshrunkto a circle of roseswhose petalsshake themselves freeof the lossthat shapesa man’s bent backin a fieldstunned by rain. A sense of emptiness inheres to the fabric of Alan Payne’s elegy for his mother.
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Aug 18, 2024 | 
yorkshiretimes.co.uk | Ian Duhig |Don Paterson |Matt Howard
artsThe truly remarkable thing about Little Toller’s new anthology is the variegated manner of its focus. Featuring the reflections of a number of established writers, emerging from all colours of the sociocultural spectrum, the received impression is kaleidoscopic, a mingling of style with labile observation, rural with urban landscapes, as though each observer was an undirected flâneur, seduced, but not always obsessed, by themes as they pass through.
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Aug 9, 2024 | 
yorkshiretimes.co.uk | Ian Duhig |Don Paterson |Matt Howard
artsThe Courtesan The sun of Venice in my hair’s preparinga gold where lustrously shall culminateall alchemy. My brows, which emulateher bridges, you can contemplateover the silent perilousness repairingof eyes which some communion secretlyunites with her canals, so that the searises and ebbs and changes in them. Hewho once has seen me falls to envyingmy dog, because, in moments of distraction,this hand no fieriness incinerates,scathless, bejewelled, there recuperates.
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Apr 11, 2024 | 
barleymagazine.com | Don Paterson
DP: And how do you see the way forward? BC: I think this is a crucial time. We mustn’t lose our momentum, we mustn’t lose the momentum for independence but we also must take into account exactly what’s happening in the country on a ground level. This is difficult because when a party becomes as broad as the SNP has become, that means it doubles the task; it has to coordinate a) governing the country and b) moving towards some kind of independence.
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Mar 24, 2024 | 
telegraph.co.uk | Don Paterson
Holding a mirror to the human heart: Robert Frost, seen in the 1960s, was born on March 26 1874 Credit: Rollie McKenna/Photo Researchers History/Getty Images Be honest: what was the last contemporary poem you learnt by heart, just because it spoke directly to you?
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Dec 25, 2023 | 
elpais.com | David Saavedra |Don Paterson
I Inside The Old Year Dying es el celebrado nuevo álbum de PJ Harvey (Inglaterra, 54 años), que anticipa una gira que, el año que viene, la traerá a España: el 1 de junio estará en Barcelona (Primavera Sound) y el 7 en Madrid (Noches del Botánico). Este será su primer concierto en la capital en 17 años (su último paso fue en el Summercase de 2007) y el primero fuera del marco de un gran festival desde que actuase en la Sala Pachá en 1995.
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Dec 14, 2023 | 
spectator.co.uk | Don Paterson
Text size Small Medium Large Line Spacing Compact Normal Spacious Comments Much like its editors, I have no idea who Poetry for the Many is for. However, the choir it preaches to is quickly identified. It opens with a dedication to Julian Assange, the free speech martyr in no way a narcissist patsy for a hostile state. A member of UB40 summarises the book’s aim on the jacket: to ‘encourage the working classes to embrace and enjoy culture’. Elsewhere, in the course of four separate...
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Dec 13, 2023 | 
spectator.com.au | Don Paterson
Poetry for the Many OR Books, pp.272, 12.99 Much like its editors, I have no idea who Poetry for the Many is for. However, the choir it preaches to is quickly identified. It opens with a dedication to Julian Assange, the free speech martyr in no way a narcissist patsy for a hostile state. A member of UB40 summarises the book’s aim on the jacket: to ‘encourage the working classes to embrace and enjoy culture’.
