Don't Ask Me What I Mean [Paperback]

Don Paterson (Author)

Book Description

Publication Date: October 1, 2004

Four times each year, the Poetry Book Society selects the best poetry titles being published and asks the poet to write 500 words on their own work at the time of its publication. The PBS bulletin has published some of the most revealing, candid and insightful statements these poets have ever made. "Don't Ask Me What I Mean" selects the best of these pieces. A genuine Who's Who of late 20th-century verse - Auden, Raine, Gunn, Hughes (who also contributes a remarkable short essay on Sylvia Plath's Ariel), Heaney, R.S. Thomas, Betjeman, Larkin, Merwin, Hecht, Paul Muldoon, Craig Raine, Norman McCaig, Geoffrey Hill, Tom Paulin, Derek Mahon, Sean O'Brien, up to and including contemporary notables such as Simon Armitage, Shapcott, Glyn Maxwell, Lavinia Greenlaw, Carol Ann Duffy, Wendy Cope, Michael Donaghy and Paul Farley.

Editorial Reviews

About the Author

Clare Brown is Director of the Poetry Book Society and lives in London. Don Paterson is a poet, musician and editor, and lives in Kirriemuir.

Product Details

• Paperback: 256 pages
• Publisher: Picador (October 1, 2004)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0330412817
• ISBN-13: 978-0330412810
• Product Dimensions: 7.6 x 5.1 x 0.9 inches
• Shipping Weight: 8.5 ounces
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #3,738,321 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

More About the Author

Don Paterson was born in Dundee in 1963. He works as a musician and editor, and has written four collections of poems, Nil Nil (1993), God's Gift to Women (1997) - winner of both the T. S. Eliot Prize and the Geoffrey Faber Memorial Prize, The Eyes (1999) and Landing Light, which won both the T. S. Eliot Prize and the Whitbread Prize for Poetry. Rain, his most recent collection, won the Forward Prize for Best Collection in 2009. Find out more about Don Paterson at his own website.