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casparb's review against another edition
Don at arguably his Don-est these are super accessible but there's an awful lot of context to be read through to get to grips with Rain, which I only felt on this reread. It's his most iconic collection and it's all about Donaghy, his death, his persistence. I remember reading the opener Two Trees long ago and it came up on my gcse english paper or something like but never has it really scarred until Sunday. The poem is an axe wound, it wrenches
also it had slipped my mind from my last read but this is such a collection about paternity - some light and lightning in Wordsworthian senses like The Handspring but there's a longer one that aches (good thing) about the near-death of his son. not too common a subject, surprisingly. Male poets don't like talking about their kids so much, which i do find is their problem. Jack Underwood does it gorgeously, of course. I like how DP covers it. It's true
also it had slipped my mind from my last read but this is such a collection about paternity - some light and lightning in Wordsworthian senses like The Handspring but there's a longer one that aches (good thing) about the near-death of his son. not too common a subject, surprisingly. Male poets don't like talking about their kids so much, which i do find is their problem. Jack Underwood does it gorgeously, of course. I like how DP covers it. It's true
whatulysses's review against another edition
3.0
I always get nervous when I don't adore something that was on someone's top 10 list. These read unremarkably, a few pleasant surprises here and there. Plain speech and rhyme, few images. But an endearing earnestness.
nemra's review against another edition
3.0
Enjoy reading his poems but couldn't connect with this collection.
stupidpieceofhuman's review against another edition
5.0
"i'm even lonelier than i thought i was."
first of all, i've read so many great and awesome poetry books this year where some books stayed with me (wendy cope's "if i don't know" or john ashbery's "a worldly country"), and some didn't (seamus heany's "district and circle"). but, i'm glad that i have read them a lot in this year, and i'll continue to read more of them, if everything goes alright. this book is also one of the best poetry books i have read.
you saw that i have read "the long take", recently, right? well, in acknowledgement, robertson, the writer of the book, expressed his gratitude to paterson for editing his book. paterson is also a scottish poet, but this is the first time i have read his poems.
reading his poetry feels like the poet, being a human, have seen or known life without having the treacherous knowledge of life completely. the poet talks about mortal fear of death or of leavetaking of love, but it also infuses the comic absurdity in them. also, the poems in this book are very much well-structured as how the poems must have serialised to give you the proper feeling of reading a neat poetry book. this book or the poems in the book follows the form of elegy, for paterson remembers one of his fellow poets, who passed away, in this book. along with that, i loved reading the homages he gave to the poets in his own poems and poetic style. i got to know about robert desnos from his poems. i'd love to find and read more poems of this french surrealist poet. thank you so much, paterson. i loved his poems so much. also, i'd like to talk about a poem in this book named, "unfold". in this poem, there are no words or lines for two pages. it's a blank poem which i've never seen (or, read) before in my life. amazing, no?
first of all, i've read so many great and awesome poetry books this year where some books stayed with me (wendy cope's "if i don't know" or john ashbery's "a worldly country"), and some didn't (seamus heany's "district and circle"). but, i'm glad that i have read them a lot in this year, and i'll continue to read more of them, if everything goes alright. this book is also one of the best poetry books i have read.
you saw that i have read "the long take", recently, right? well, in acknowledgement, robertson, the writer of the book, expressed his gratitude to paterson for editing his book. paterson is also a scottish poet, but this is the first time i have read his poems.
reading his poetry feels like the poet, being a human, have seen or known life without having the treacherous knowledge of life completely. the poet talks about mortal fear of death or of leavetaking of love, but it also infuses the comic absurdity in them. also, the poems in this book are very much well-structured as how the poems must have serialised to give you the proper feeling of reading a neat poetry book. this book or the poems in the book follows the form of elegy, for paterson remembers one of his fellow poets, who passed away, in this book. along with that, i loved reading the homages he gave to the poets in his own poems and poetic style. i got to know about robert desnos from his poems. i'd love to find and read more poems of this french surrealist poet. thank you so much, paterson. i loved his poems so much. also, i'd like to talk about a poem in this book named, "unfold". in this poem, there are no words or lines for two pages. it's a blank poem which i've never seen (or, read) before in my life. amazing, no?