Don Paterson
Appeared: 21 May
Don Paterson was born in Dundee in 1963. His poetry collections include Nil Nil, Landing Light, Rain and 40 Sonnets; his most recent is Zonal, which features poems based loosely on The Twilight Zone. His books have won many awards; his other publications include versions of Rilke and Machado, a commentary on Shakespeare’s Sonnets, three books of aphorism and a long technical ars poetica, The Poem. He is Professor of Poetry at the University of St Andrews and Poetry Editor at Picador Macmillan. For the last 40 years he has also had a career as jazz guitarist and composer. He lives in Edinburgh.
Appeared: 21 May
Don Paterson was born in Dundee in 1963. His poetry collections include Nil Nil, Landing Light, Rain and 40 Sonnets; his most recent is Zonal, which features poems based loosely on The Twilight Zone. His books have won many awards; his other publications include versions of Rilke and Machado, a commentary on Shakespeare’s Sonnets, three books of aphorism and a long technical ars poetica, The Poem. He is Professor of Poetry at the University of St Andrews and Poetry Editor at Picador Macmillan. For the last 40 years he has also had a career as jazz guitarist and composer. He lives in Edinburgh.
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A performance of a poem taken from Don Paterson's brand new poetry collection Zonal (Faber). The collection starts from the premise that the crisis of mid-life may be a permanent state of mind. Zonal is an experiment in science-fictional and fantastic autobiography, with all of its poems taking their imaginative cue from the first season of The Twilight Zone (1959–1960), playing fast and loose with both their source material and their author’s own life. Narrative and dramatic in approach, genre-hopping from horror to Black Mirror-style sci-fi, ‘weird tale’ to metaphysical fantasy, these poems change voices constantly in an attempt to get at the truth by alternate means.
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Independent Bookshop Spotlight on...
Toppings
2 Blenheim Place
Edinburgh
email: [email protected]
Phone: 0131 546 4202
Website: https://www.toppingbooks.co.uk/events/edinburgh/
Topping & Company Booksellers of Edinburgh opened in September 2019 - and at over 4,000 sq. feet it is the largest independent bookshop to open in the country for decades. With its handcrafted bookcases, signature rolling library ladders, and space for 70,000 titles on the shelves, the bookshop has received a very warm welcome from Edinburgh’s literary scene. It offers an exceptional browsing experience, with complimentary pots of fresh tea and coffee and plenty of friendly, bookish advice. Topping & Company are also well known for their exciting and varied book festivals which run all year round.
The bookshop situated at 2 Blenheim Place, Edinburgh, a Grade A listed William Playfair building. Pevsner wrote of the building, "it is so curious and extravagant that the wonder is that it was built at all."
How to order from Topping & Company at the moment:
Search the full catalogue online: https://www.toppingbooks.co.uk/catalogue/
The bookshop is posting out orders every day, and also offering contact-less collection between 5-6pm every week day, and 2-6pm on Saturdays. Posting is just £2, or free for orders over £50.
Toppings says, 'We're so delighted to be Don's favourite bookshop - we are enormously fond of him and his work! Our poetry shelves are always crammed with his books, and he has been a great and bookish supporter of ours for years.'
They're currently selling five Don Paterson titles:
Zonal
40 Sonnets
Rain
The Fall at Home
Selected Poems
You can buys Don's books from Toppings via this link.
2 Blenheim Place
Edinburgh
email: [email protected]
Phone: 0131 546 4202
Website: https://www.toppingbooks.co.uk/events/edinburgh/
Topping & Company Booksellers of Edinburgh opened in September 2019 - and at over 4,000 sq. feet it is the largest independent bookshop to open in the country for decades. With its handcrafted bookcases, signature rolling library ladders, and space for 70,000 titles on the shelves, the bookshop has received a very warm welcome from Edinburgh’s literary scene. It offers an exceptional browsing experience, with complimentary pots of fresh tea and coffee and plenty of friendly, bookish advice. Topping & Company are also well known for their exciting and varied book festivals which run all year round.
The bookshop situated at 2 Blenheim Place, Edinburgh, a Grade A listed William Playfair building. Pevsner wrote of the building, "it is so curious and extravagant that the wonder is that it was built at all."
How to order from Topping & Company at the moment:
Search the full catalogue online: https://www.toppingbooks.co.uk/catalogue/
The bookshop is posting out orders every day, and also offering contact-less collection between 5-6pm every week day, and 2-6pm on Saturdays. Posting is just £2, or free for orders over £50.
Toppings says, 'We're so delighted to be Don's favourite bookshop - we are enormously fond of him and his work! Our poetry shelves are always crammed with his books, and he has been a great and bookish supporter of ours for years.'
They're currently selling five Don Paterson titles:
Zonal
40 Sonnets
Rain
The Fall at Home
Selected Poems
You can buys Don's books from Toppings via this link.
Lighthouse Books
43-45 W Nicolson St, Newington
Edinburgh EH8 9DB
email: [email protected]
Phone: 0131 662 9112
Website: https://www.lighthousebookshop.com/
Lighthouse - Edinburgh's Radical Bookshop is an activist, intersectional, feminist, antiracist, lgbtq+ bookshop and community space. We are home to Edinburgh's annual Radical Book Fair & August Book Fringe and in normal times host hundreds of book events throughout the year. For now you can find our virtual community bookshop space on our website and across social media under the banner #LighthouseLifeRaft. Our weekly newsletter shares the highlights, including video readings, recommendations and author interviews, and that's where we'll announce our online events when they start up again! We are @Lighthousebks on twitter, instagram and facebook.
We are still delivering books across the UK, which you can order via email or you can pick from a selection of our favourites on the website: www.lighthousebookshop.com. The bookshop is closed to browsers, but we're still operating Monday-friday 11-6 online or by email
www.lighthousebookshop.com / [email protected].
Don says of Toppings and Lighthouse Books, 'Lighthouse took over from the beloved WordPower, and brilliantly. Even for a raging moderate like me, this genuinely ‘radical’ bookshop seems drenched in total serendipity. You’ll find a thousand things here you didn’t know you needed to read but now suddenly do, and lovely staff to point you to them. A big shout-out too to Toppings in St Andrews (and Bath! and Edinburgh!) for their general died-and-gone-to-heaven wonderfulness.'
43-45 W Nicolson St, Newington
Edinburgh EH8 9DB
email: [email protected]
Phone: 0131 662 9112
Website: https://www.lighthousebookshop.com/
Lighthouse - Edinburgh's Radical Bookshop is an activist, intersectional, feminist, antiracist, lgbtq+ bookshop and community space. We are home to Edinburgh's annual Radical Book Fair & August Book Fringe and in normal times host hundreds of book events throughout the year. For now you can find our virtual community bookshop space on our website and across social media under the banner #LighthouseLifeRaft. Our weekly newsletter shares the highlights, including video readings, recommendations and author interviews, and that's where we'll announce our online events when they start up again! We are @Lighthousebks on twitter, instagram and facebook.
We are still delivering books across the UK, which you can order via email or you can pick from a selection of our favourites on the website: www.lighthousebookshop.com. The bookshop is closed to browsers, but we're still operating Monday-friday 11-6 online or by email
www.lighthousebookshop.com / [email protected].
Don says of Toppings and Lighthouse Books, 'Lighthouse took over from the beloved WordPower, and brilliantly. Even for a raging moderate like me, this genuinely ‘radical’ bookshop seems drenched in total serendipity. You’ll find a thousand things here you didn’t know you needed to read but now suddenly do, and lovely staff to point you to them. A big shout-out too to Toppings in St Andrews (and Bath! and Edinburgh!) for their general died-and-gone-to-heaven wonderfulness.'
Theatre Spotlight on...
Dundee Rep
Tay Square
Dundee DD1 1PB
01382 223530
Website: https://www.dundeerep.co.uk/
Dundee Rep and Scottish Dance Theatre sit at the cultural heart of Scotland and the City of Dundee. Founded in 1939, the Rep building is a centre of creative energy, a space for engagement with a wide range of art forms, whilst also playing a lead role in arts education and engagement across the city and beyond. Sited in a purpose-built art space, Dundee Rep and Scottish Dance Theatre create and deliver work for a local audience, as well as on a national and international scale. At the heart of the Dundee Rep and Scottish Dance Theatre vision is the belief that artistic and creative experience of the highest quality should be open and available to all. The theatre seeks to share a diverse programme of theatre and dance across Dundee and beyond by taking its work out of the theatre and into the wider geographical and cultural communities.
Don says of Dundee Rep, 'Best theatre in Scotland. They've been a fixture of Dundee culture forever and are the apotheosis of the rep ethos. They understood from very early on how to grow an audience and wholly win their trust with brilliant programmes that combined local shows for local folk, the classics, and the best of contemporary theatre. Great food, and a bar that has seen too many nights that ended in total chaos.'
Andrew Panton, Artistic Director of Dundee Rep, says, 'We’re delighted that Don has chosen Dundee Rep us as his favourite theatre. Like many arts organisations during this unprecedented time, Dundee Rep & Scottish Dance Theatre are working hard to stay connected to our audiences, communities and participants. We believe that culture and the arts have a vital role to play during this period. From everyone here, we send our very best wishes to all involved in the brilliant Maker to Maker project and look forward to the day we can welcome you back into our theatre.'
Tay Square
Dundee DD1 1PB
01382 223530
Website: https://www.dundeerep.co.uk/
Dundee Rep and Scottish Dance Theatre sit at the cultural heart of Scotland and the City of Dundee. Founded in 1939, the Rep building is a centre of creative energy, a space for engagement with a wide range of art forms, whilst also playing a lead role in arts education and engagement across the city and beyond. Sited in a purpose-built art space, Dundee Rep and Scottish Dance Theatre create and deliver work for a local audience, as well as on a national and international scale. At the heart of the Dundee Rep and Scottish Dance Theatre vision is the belief that artistic and creative experience of the highest quality should be open and available to all. The theatre seeks to share a diverse programme of theatre and dance across Dundee and beyond by taking its work out of the theatre and into the wider geographical and cultural communities.
Don says of Dundee Rep, 'Best theatre in Scotland. They've been a fixture of Dundee culture forever and are the apotheosis of the rep ethos. They understood from very early on how to grow an audience and wholly win their trust with brilliant programmes that combined local shows for local folk, the classics, and the best of contemporary theatre. Great food, and a bar that has seen too many nights that ended in total chaos.'
Andrew Panton, Artistic Director of Dundee Rep, says, 'We’re delighted that Don has chosen Dundee Rep us as his favourite theatre. Like many arts organisations during this unprecedented time, Dundee Rep & Scottish Dance Theatre are working hard to stay connected to our audiences, communities and participants. We believe that culture and the arts have a vital role to play during this period. From everyone here, we send our very best wishes to all involved in the brilliant Maker to Maker project and look forward to the day we can welcome you back into our theatre.'
Library Spotlight on...
Coldside Library
150 Strathmartine Road
Dundee DD3 7SE
01382 432849
Website: http://www.leisureandculturedundee.com/coldside-community-library
Coldside Library is one of five Carnegie libraries commissioned in 1901 for the City of Dundee. The library was designed in 1906 by city architect James Thomson as one of the first two projects undertaken after his appointment to the post in 1904. Coldside library is one of the first free libraries in Dundee and has continued to operate as a public library to this day. It offers book borrowing services, free wifi and computers for internet access, and educational activities for families and adults in the Dundee area.
Don says of Coldside Library, 'Coldside Library on the Strathmartine Road in Dundee was the first I ever used - my dad would take me there after he finished work at DC Thomson’s - and the platonic form against which all libraries have since been measured. A lovely old Carnegie library on the roundabout of one of Dundee’s ‘less fashionable areas’, it’s still going strong. When the speaker in Michael Marra’s immortal ’Hermless’ sings "I ging to the lehbray", there’s no question in my mind that he’s aff to Coldside for his Wilbur Smith.'
150 Strathmartine Road
Dundee DD3 7SE
01382 432849
Website: http://www.leisureandculturedundee.com/coldside-community-library
Coldside Library is one of five Carnegie libraries commissioned in 1901 for the City of Dundee. The library was designed in 1906 by city architect James Thomson as one of the first two projects undertaken after his appointment to the post in 1904. Coldside library is one of the first free libraries in Dundee and has continued to operate as a public library to this day. It offers book borrowing services, free wifi and computers for internet access, and educational activities for families and adults in the Dundee area.
Don says of Coldside Library, 'Coldside Library on the Strathmartine Road in Dundee was the first I ever used - my dad would take me there after he finished work at DC Thomson’s - and the platonic form against which all libraries have since been measured. A lovely old Carnegie library on the roundabout of one of Dundee’s ‘less fashionable areas’, it’s still going strong. When the speaker in Michael Marra’s immortal ’Hermless’ sings "I ging to the lehbray", there’s no question in my mind that he’s aff to Coldside for his Wilbur Smith.'