Last Words

by Don Paterson

These poems were commissioned for the last year of the century. For one week at the end of 1999 these poems form part of a festival in the city of Salisbury, flown from aircraft, written in stained glass, as tattoos, grown into fields, shown in cinemas and lit up in fireworks.

Genres: Poetry

128 pages, Paperback

First published January 1, 1999

About the author

Don Paterson (b. 1963) is a Scottish poet and writer. He is the author of sixteen books of poetry, aphorism, criticism, memoir and poetic theory. His poetry has won many awards, including the Whitbread Poetry Prize, the Geoffrey Faber Memorial Prize, the Costa Poetry Award, three Forward Prizes, the T.S. Eliot Prize on two occasions, and the Queen's Gold Medal for Poetry.

He is a Professor Emeritus at the University of St. Andrews, and for twenty-five years was Poetry Editor at Picador MacMillan. He has long had a parallel career as a jazz guitarist.

He lives in Kirriemuir, Angus.

Reviews

[Allen Steele · Rating 3 out of 5]

Considering this was written 18 years ago, it held up very well, but then most good poetry does. A collection of poems by up-and- coming poets, as well as a few veterans most from England or Scotland. Some were excellent. at the end it gives a synopsis of each poet and the awards of each.