Robert Burns: Poems Selected by Don Paterson (Poet to Poet: An Essential Choice of Classic Verse) - Softcover

Robert Burns

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0571207405 ISBN 13: 9780571207404

Publisher: Faber and Faber, 2001

Synopsis

Don Paterson selects poems by Robert Burns for this volume from Poets' Selections' - a series in which contemporary poets introduce an earlier poet that they particularly admire.

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Robert Burns (1759-96) was born into a farming family in Ayrshire, Scotland. The publication in 1786 of his first book, Poems, Chiefly in the Scottish dialect, made him famous overnight and saw him feted by Edinburgh society. But Burns made no money from his writing and quickly fell on hard times, returning to farming in Dumfries, and, when that failed, to work as an Excise officer. He devoted his final years to poetry and the writing of Scottish songs. Don Paterson was born in Dundee in 1963. His previous poetry collections include Nil Nil, God's Gift to Women, Landing Light and Rain. He has also published two books of aphorism, as well as translations of Antonio Machado and Rainer Maria Rilke. His poetry has won many awards, including the Whitbread Poetry Prize, the Geoffrey Faber Memorial Prize, the Costa Poetry Award, and all three Forward Prizes; he is currently the only poet to have won the T. S. Eliot Prize twice. He was awarded the Queen's Gold Medal for Poetry in 2009. He is a Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature, the English Association and the Royal Society of Edinburgh, and is currently Professor of Poetry at the University of St Andrews. Since 1997 he has been poetry editor at Picador Macmillan, and he also works as a jazz musician and composer. He lives in Edinburgh.

About this edition

• Publisher: Faber and Faber
• Publication date: 2001
• ISBN 10: 0571207405
• ISBN 13: 9780571207404
• Binding: Paperback
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 96