{"product_id":"40-sonnets-paperback","title":"40 Sonnets - Paperback","description":"\u003cp\u003eby \u003cb\u003eDon Paterson\u003c\/b\u003e (Author)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eThis collection, which won the 2015 Costa Poetry Award, is an exhibition of the Dundee-born poet's stunningly accomplished adoption of the sonnet's ancient structure\u003c\/b\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eThis collection from Don Paterson, his first since the Forward Prize-winning \u003ci\u003eRain\u003c\/i\u003e in 2009, 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 our most celebrated poets. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eAddressed to friends and enemies, the living and the dead, children, musicians, poets, and dogs, these poems are as ambitious in their scope and tonal range as in the breadth of their concerns. Here, voices call home from the blackout and the airlock, the storm cave and the séance, the coal shed, the war, the highway, the forest, and the sea. These are voices frustrated by distance and darkness, which ring with the \"sound that fades up from the hiss, \/ like a glass some random downdraught had set ringing, \/ now full of its only note, its lonely call.\" \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eIn \u003ci\u003e40 Sonnets\u003c\/i\u003e, Paterson returns to some of his central themes--contradiction and strangeness, tension and transformation, the dream world, and the divided self--in some of the most powerful and formally assured poems of his career.\u003ch3\u003eAuthor Biography\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eDon Paterson\u003c\/b\u003e has written several collections of poems, including \u003ci\u003eNil Nil\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eGod's Gift to Women\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eRain\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eThe Eyes\u003c\/i\u003e, and \u003ci\u003eLanding Light\u003c\/i\u003e, which won both the T. S. Eliot Prize and the Whitbread Prize for Poetry. He lives in Edinburgh.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eNumber of Pages:\u003c\/strong\u003e 64\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eDimensions:\u003c\/strong\u003e 0.13 x 8.25 x 5.5 IN\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublication Date:\u003c\/strong\u003e May 01, 2018\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Books by splitShops","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":42724106960959,"sku":"9780374537753","price":18.14,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0105\/8226\/1823\/files\/0ac50fff87ba60722624cb030fd4a0a7.webp?v=1765101508","url":"https:\/\/dhlswag.com\/products\/40-sonnets-paperback","provider":"BBB","version":"1.0","type":"link"}