Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. Contents v
3. Acknowledgements vii
4. List of Abbreviations viii
5. List of Contributors ix
6. Introduction 1
7. Part I. PATTERNS AND PATERSON: FORMS, TECHNIQUES, HISTORIES
8. 1. Don Paterson’s Ars Poetica 21
9. 2. Golden Means: Music, Translation and the Patersonnet 34
10. 3. No-Score Drawing: Postmodern Games in Don Paterson 49
11. 4. Cleaving Nothing from Nothing: Post-Romantic Negation and Affirmation in Don Paterson 61
12. 5. Form in Poetry 75
13. Part II. POETRY IN ITS PLACE: RESPONSES AND RESPONSIBILITIES
14. 6. Scotland, Britain and The Elsewhere of Poetry 85
15. 7. On Spirituality and Transcendence 98
16. 8. Hiding in Full View: Dark Material and Light Writing 114
17. 9. Punching Yourself in the Face: Don Paterson and his Readers 131
18. 10. The Publishing of Poetry 145
19. Select Bibliography 153
20. Index 159