Don Paterson Don Paterson Born in Dundee, Scotland, Don Paterson’s poetry collections include Nil Nil, God’s Gift to Women, Landing Light, and Rain. He… Grade levels 7-9 / Sec. 1-3 10-12 / Sec. 4 & 5 / CEGEP 1 Tags Isolation Outside the Box Mythology & Fantasy Exile Death Eerie Teen Spirit UK Moods Brutally Frank Depressed Despairing Discouraged Dreamy Haunted Hurt Lonely Melancholic Messed Up Snarky Sober Torn Tortured Wry Common Poetic Terms and Forms Assonance Couplet Metaphor Rhyme Rhythm Sonnet Contest Criteria 25 Lines or Fewer Dominik Parisien An English Speaking Doctor Translates the Concerns of his Patient with Google/Un Docteur Anglophone Traduit Les Inquiétudes De Son Patient Avec Google écoute à quoi bon être poète beau dire ce mal semble dans la tête comme marteau feu enclume clou couteau ou l’éclat d’une baudroie ou des aurores boréales Shane Book World Town Entirely windless, today’s sea; of these waters’ many names the best seemed “field-of-pearl-leaves,” for it smelled like the air in the house he built entirely of doors: pink school door, Karen Connelly Family Reunions The other people quit their stone fields to come here. They slip in from nights that even the snow abandons. They leave ashes in their glasses Eli Tareq El Bechelany-Lynch The Fatigue The Fatigue is just fatigue. It sprays my body like a numbing agent. Say the way I sleep might not be working, say the way I eat might not be working. Hope to god the meds
