Tuesday, October 13, 2009

News at Eleven: But the judges' choice of [Don] Paterson's Rain

was in the end "satisfactorily definite", he said. "It is a book of great seriousness by a particularly gifted writer. It has enormous emotional depth and he is a very skilful writer in real command of his craft. Some of the work in it is tremendously moving and one or two of the poems really unsettled me--the book will stay with me."

from The Guardian: Don Paterson wins the Forward poetry prize with 'masterful' collection
from The Guardian: A Forward judge writes

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