Landing Light

Now in paperback, the highly acclaimed collection by Scottish poet Don Paterson, winner of the 2003 Whitbread Poetry Award and the T.S. Eliot Prize

Dear son, I was mezzo del cammin

and the true path was as lost to me as ever when you cut in front and lit it as you ran.

See how the true gift never leaves the giver . . .

—from "Waking with Russell"

Hailed for its "seriousness and moral urgency" (The Independent), Landing Light is one of the most important and resonant poetry collections to come out of Britain in recent years.

Now in paperback, the highly acclaimed collection by Scottish poet Don Paterson, winner of the 2003 Whitbread Poetry Award and the T.S. Eliot Prize

Dear son, I was mezzo del cammin

and the true path was as lost to me as ever when you cut in front and lit it as you ran.

See how the true gift never leaves the giver . . .

—from "Waking with Russell"

Hailed for its "seriousness and moral urgency" (The Independent), Landing Light is one of the most important and resonant poetry collections to come out of Britain in recent years.

Don Paterson is a poet, editor, and musician. He is the author of The White Lie: New and Selected Poetry and co-editor (with Charles Simic) of New British Poetry. He lives in Kirriemuir, Scotland.