Toy Fights

“The prose is fizzing-brained, hyperbolic, and it has a hyperbolic effect: It makes you want to delete everything you’ve ever written and start again, this time telling the truth.” – James Parker - The Atlantic”[S]hot through with sharp wit … Most enchanting are Paterson’s musings on music, from hilarious reminiscences of the Dundee folk scene … to gorgeous homages to obscure performers … The result is a raucously funny picaresque laced with hard-earned wisdom.” – Publishers Weekly“As [Paterson] charts a path through the 1970s and ’80s, he deftly avoids the twin pitfalls of romanticism and nostalgia, instead describing the poverty, violence, and customs of his youth with evenhanded observation and often humor … A uniquely compelling, expressive memoir packed with explosive asides and raucous insight.” – Kirkus Reviews

Don Paterson was awarded the Queen’s Gold Medal for Poetry in 2009, and is the only poet to have won the T. S. Eliot Prize on two occasions. He also works as a jazz musician. He lives in Kirriemuir, Scotland.