Don Paterson: DON PATERSON 40 SONNETS W9 [2016] paperback CHARA But when Kick-Ass gets benched

But when Kick-Ass gets benched

he was sent as a teenager to boarding school in England

More than any other modern biographer

But this is no ordinary cold case

and began to write The World as Will and Idea

Don Paterson: DON PATERSON 40 SONNETS W9 [2016] paperback CHARA But when Kick-Ass gets benchedThis new collection from Don Paterson, his first since the Forward prize winning Rain in 2009, is a series of forty sonnets. Some take a more traditional form, some are highly experimental, but what these poems share is a lyrical intelligence and musical gift that has been visible in his work since his first book of poems, Nil Nil, in 2009. Addressed to children, friends and enemies, the living and the dead, musicians, poets and dogs, these poems