Download PDF by Don Paterson: God's Gift to Women (Faber poetry)

By Don Paterson

ISBN-10: 057117762X

ISBN-13: 9780571177622

A well timed re-issue of 1 of award-winning poet Don Paterson's most interesting collections first released to nice acclaim in 1997. As Don Paterson's attractiveness as one of many most interesting modern poets in English keeps to develop we'll be actively reprinting and repromoting his paintings into our new Faber poetry livery. 'Whisky, trains, ladies and stars waltz during the publication, ontologically challenged. there's a experience of unmentionable atrocities and guilts, banished - purely simply - offstage, frequently via a dismayingly bleak wit, or by means of unforeseen gorgeousness during this savage Romantic.' Michael Hofmann

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Six numbers later, he's on his fifteenth chorus o 'Kailyard Blues', gien it genius is pain, eyes screwed shut, pretendin tae ignore us. So Eh'm gaun tartan cuin' the head back in when Lafayette stands up, leans over, flashes this big neep gully fae his jacket, slashes the boy's bellows up the middle - chiv posed, erse on stool before his hi-hat's dosed. Meanwhile, he's still dyin 0 constipation but that's soon sorted - cos next big squeeze his box is futterin like a coo's erse, wi the sooneffects tae match.

In the morning, excluding the state of your trousers, it seems there's no damage to pay; just a stunned vacuity, furred at the edges, as if you looked out at the world through a big hole someone had smashed in your living-room window. A little confused, you spend an hour failing to scrub the word SPONG from your wrist, then set out for a leisurely tour of the second-hand book-stalls. Around midday, you notice the demon of accidie perched on the steeple, yawning contagiously; you make plans to deal with him, considering, in turn, a propitiatory nap, the dubbed Polish game-show, even, roguishly, the hair of the dog.

Once, I remember, he had us all spellbound as he blew the guts from a goose-egg and then fashioned a kind of primitive ocarina, and on this absurdly delicate instrument blew a strange little off-key melody, almost more breath than note . I hear it clearly in the lochrian mode of so many of the folk-songs of the region, but this is too co~venient to be more than a trick of memory ... Then this scrawny Orpheus, as soon as he knew we were all drawn into his magic, crushed it in his hand, as if out of pure scorn for us; this trick would always draw an involuntary groan from his audience, and the first time I witnessed it I burst into tears .

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