Landing Light

Don Paterson · 2003 CE · Poem · English · Contemporary

A Scottish poet's lyrics on fatherhood, marriage and the dead move between English and Scots, with a version of Rilke among them. Rhyme and syntax stay tight even where the feeling is raw. Filed here with English, as the corpus does with Scottish writing in English.

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