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 Kevin Irie Current The sludge-slow flow of the visible current opens a path we can’t continue, tugs at what no hand can pull along. It’s how even water loses memory, travels a direction it cannot find, Kai Cheng Thom diaspora babies diaspora babies, we are born of pregnant pauses/spilled from unwanted wombs/squalling invisible-ink poems/written in the margins of a map of a place called No Homeland Di Brandt my mother found herself my mother found herself one late summer afternoon lying in grass under the wild yellow plum tree jewelled with sunlight she was forgotten there in spring picking rhubarb for pie & the children home from e.e. cummings somewhere i have never travelled somewhere i have never travelled,gladly beyond any experience,your eyes have their silence: in your most frail gesture are things which…
