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"'A terrific, intelligent, lyrical, delicate, lovely piece of work.' A. L. Kennedy 'It is the very height of his standards that set him apart. He remains one of the best young poets around.' John Redmond; 'Lyrical yet austere, straight-talking but at ease with eloquence... some of the most outstanding poems published this year.' Helen Dunmore"
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After the huge success of Nil Nil (a Poetry Book Society Choice and winner of the Forward Prize best first collection), Don Paterson's second collection was impatiently awaited. His readers were not disappointed. In God's Gift to Women, straight autobiography mixes with invention, exaggeration, technical dazzle and sheer cheek to produce a book quite unlike any other.
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This is a fearless, clever, at times breathtaking, collection of poetry from Paterson, a Scottish poet. The title poem is of course ironic, but also heartbreaking and yet merciless, with echoes of a Christ complex and a setting in the dirty streets where women are commodities. I was profoundly moved and lifted by this uncompromising poem.
The title echoes through this collection. Though Paterson does have it wrong about the Shahrázád story - it was the ruler's Grand Vizier not the ruler who had the job of killing each virgin after her deflowering. No matter, all of these poems have at their heart a strong sense of the desperate straits into which we humans have got ourselves. Our relationships are barely worth the words that describe them, we are in Plato's cave, our world a tattered curtain on a broken window frame. We are powerless, damaged and damaging. Nothing comes of our struggles beyond the merest survival.
Very bleak, this vision, but such searing honesty, such burning truth within.
The title echoes through this collection. Though Paterson does have it wrong about the Shahrázád story - it was the ruler's Grand Vizier not the ruler who had the job of killing each virgin after her deflowering. No matter, all of these poems have at their heart a strong sense of the desperate straits into which we humans have got ourselves. Our relationships are barely worth the words that describe them, we are in Plato's cave, our world a tattered curtain on a broken window frame. We are powerless, damaged and damaging. Nothing comes of our struggles beyond the merest survival.
Very bleak, this vision, but such searing honesty, such burning truth within.
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