Contents

pp v-vi

Acknowledgements

pp vii-vii

List of Abbreviations

pp viii-viii

List of Contributors

pp ix-xii

Introduction

pp 1-18

Part I - PATTERNS AND PATERSON: FORMS, TECHNIQUES, HISTORIES

pp 19-20

1 - Don Paterson's Ars Poetica

pp 21-33

2 - Golden Means: Music, Translation and the Patersonnet

pp 34-48

3 - No-Score Drawing: Postmodern Games in Don Paterson

pp 49-60

4 - Cleaving Nothing from Nothing: Post-Romantic Negation and Affirmation in Don Paterson

pp 61-74

5 - Form in Poetry

pp 75-82

Part II - POETRY IN ITS PLACE: RESPONSES AND RESPONSIBILITIES

pp 83-84

6 - Scotland, Britain and The Elsewhere of Poetry

pp 85-97

7 - On Spirituality and Transcendence

pp 98-113

8 - Hiding in Full View: Dark Material and Light Writing

pp 114-130

9 - Punching Yourself in the Face: Don Paterson and his Readers

pp 131-144

10 - The Publishing of Poetry

pp 145-152

Select Bibliography

pp 153-158

Index

pp 159-163