God’s Gift to Women
God’s Gift to Women is Don Paterson – the prize-winning Scottish poet – at his finest: a ‘terrific, intelligent, lyrical, delicate, lovely piece of work’ (A. L. Kennedy).
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After the huge success of Nil Nil (a Poetry Book Society Choice and winner of the Forward Prize best first collection), Don Paterson’s second collection was impatiently awaited. His readers were not disappointed. In God’s Gift to Women, straight autobiography mixes with invention, exaggeration, technical dazzle and sheer cheek to produce a book quite unlike any other.
Don Paterson was born in Dundee, Scotland. His first collection of poetry, Nil Nil (1993) won the Forward Poetry Prize for Best First Collection. His following collection, God’s Gift to Women (1997) won the T. S. Eliot Prize and the Geoffrey Faber Memorial Prize. Don Paterson’s poetry collection, Landing Light, won the 2001 Whitbread Poetry Award, and also received the…
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