The Poem

Lyric, Sign, Metre

by Don Paterson
language: english
Publisher: Faber & Faber, May of 2018 ‧
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Don Paterson is not only one of our great poets, but also an esteemed authority on the art of poetry. The Poem is a treatise on the art of poetry in three sections - one on lyric, the music of poetic speech; one on sign, and how poetry makes its unique kind of sense; and one on metre, the rhythm of the poetic line.

The Poem

Lyric, Sign, Metre

by Don Paterson

Property Description
ISBN: 9780571206629
Publisher: Faber & Faber
Release Date: May of 2018
Language: English
Dimensions: 153 x 234 x 20 mm
Cover: Hardcover
Pages: 752
Format: Book
Collection: Ff Classics
Categories: Books in English > Fiction > Poetry
EAN: 9780571206629

ABOUT THE AUTHOR

Don Paterson

Don Paterson was born in Dundee in 1963. He is the author of Nil Nil (1993), winner of the Forward Prize for Best First Collection; God's Gift to Women (1997) - winner of both the T. S. Eliot Prize and the Geoffrey Faber Memorial Prize; and Landing Light (2003), which won both the T. S. Eliot Prize and the Whitbread Prize for Poetry. Rain, his most recent collection, won the Forward Prize for Best Collection in 2009, the same year that he was awarded the Queen's Gold Medal for Poetry. He has also published versions of Antonio Machado (The Eyes, 1999) and Rainer Maria Rilke (Orpheus, 2006), as well as two collections of aphorisms. His Selected Poems appeared in 2012.

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