Don Paterson: POEM LYRIC SIGN METRE Z44 [2018] hardback OSPRE a singer-songwriter whose music defied

a singer-songwriter whose music defied categorization and inspired pop culture for decades

The autobiographical Ham on Rye is widely considered his finest novel

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Don Paterson: POEM LYRIC SIGN METRE Z44 [2018] hardback OSPRE a singer-songwriter whose music defiedDon Paterson is not only one of our great poets, but also an esteemed authority on the art of poetry. The Poem is a treatise on the art of poetry in three sections one on lyric, the music of poetic speech; one on sign, and how poetry makes its unique kind of sense; and one on metre, the rhythm of the poetic line.