Don Paterson
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Landing Light: Poems
Don Paterson
Dear son, I was mezzo del cammin
and the true path was as lost to me as ever
when you cut in front and lit it as you ran.
See how the true gift never leaves the giver…
—from “Waking with Russell”
Hailed for its “enormous skill and verve” (The Guardian) and its “seriousness and moral urgency” (The Independent), Landing Light is one of the most important and resonant poetry collections to come out of Britain in recent years. Ceaselessly inquiring, Don Paterson discovers the love…
Don Paterson
In this text Don Paterson has used the work of the late, great Spanish poet Antonio Machado (1875-1939) to create a spiritual portrait which lies somewhere between translation and imitation, showing Machado to have a surprisingly modern philosophical bent.
