Description
Don Paterson’s collection of poetry starts from the premise that the crisis of mid-life may be a permanent state of mind. ‘Zonal’ is an experiment in science-fictional and fantastic autobiography, with all of its poems taking their imaginative cue from the first season of ‘The Twilight Zone’ (1959-1960), playing fast and loose with both their source material and their author’s own life. Narrative and dramatic in approach, genre-hopping from horror to ‘Black Mirror’-style sci-fi, ‘weird tale’ to metaphysical fantasy, these poems change voices constantly in an attempt to get at the truth by alternate means.








Somewhere Else Entirely
The Tamarit Poems
Strong in the Rain
Chameleon
Gold from the Stone
Counting Backwards
Collected Poems and Drawings of Stevie Smith
Hansel and Gretel
Girls Are Coming Out of the Woods
Is This a Poem?: What makes a poem, and how YOU can write one
Book of Mercy
Clare Beaton's Bedtime Rhymes