Rain by Don Paterson Kiwao Nomura Challenging and refreshing

Challenging and refreshing

crossing the Atlantic

Set against the charms and vicissitudes of growing up in a family of musicians

experiencing the saturation of new motherhood or engaging in a boundary-dissolving encounter with a psychedelic cactus

prodded at

Rain by Don Paterson Kiwao Nomura Challenging and refreshingIn this, his first volume of original verse since the award winning Landing Light, Don Paterson is found writing at his most memorable and direct. In an assembly of masterful lyrics and monologues, he conjures a series of fables and charms that serve both to expose us to the unsettling forces within the world and simultaneously offer some protection against them. Whether outwardly elemental in their address, or more personal in their direction, these