Don Paterson is one of our most acclaimed contemporary poets, possessed of an infinite sensitivity to the world (Zadie Smith).
A memoir of family, music, and highly inventive profanity, Toy Fights is an unforgettable account of the years we all spend in rehearsal for real life..
When American pop culture arrived, Paterson fell hard for the so-called outlaw sound; by his teens, he was traveling with his father, a Stetson-wearing country musician, and becoming guitar-mad himself.
In Toy Fights , he vividly re-creates the customs of the Scottish working class, from the titular childhood game (basically twenty minutes of extreme violence without pretext) to the virtues of the sugary sweet known as tablet. origami), Paterson nevertheless made clear early on his immense gift for observation. . .
An indifferent student prone to obsessions (with girls at school and .
But his current standing gives few hints of his hilariously misspent youth.
Don Paterson is one of our most acclaimed contemporary poets, possessed of an infinite sensitivity to the world (Zadie Smith)
