Designed for those in need of poetic solace, and a gift book for the
recently bereaved, it is also intended as a book to read from at
memorial ceremonies, when judging the tone and hitting the right note is
everything.
Don Paterson was born in Dundee in 1963. He works as a musician and editor, and teaches at the University of St Andrews. His most recent collection, Rain, won the Forward Prize and the Queen’s Gold Medal for Poetry in 2009.
