PERHAPS A GIFT VOUCHER FOR MUM?: MOTHER'S DAY
Don Paterson was born in Dundee in 1963. His poetry collectionsinclude Nil Nil, God's Gift to Women, LandingLight, Rain, 40 Sonnets and Zonal. He is the author of threebooks of aphorism - The Book of Shadows, The Blind Eyeand The Fall at Home - as well as translations of AntonioMachado and Rainer Maria Rilke. He is also the author ofReading Shakespeare's Sonnets, Smith: A Reader's Guide tothe Poetry of Michael Donaghy, and The Poem: Lyric, Sign,Metre. His poetry has won many awards, including theWhitbread Poetry Prize, the Geoffrey Faber Memorial Prize,the Costa Poetry Award, all three Forward Prizes, and the T.S. Eliot
