
Don Paterson
London Review Bookshop Podcast
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Zen Song Daily Goes
"I'm learning right up to the twins dear sons for I am not as you believed your uncle forgive me now my dear election and those nine months," he writes. "The single thought that grieves me most was not your terrible instruction and the works of men but the disillusionments non-king and strawberry needs a Baba Yar" The poem is written in Scots, which has no currency or speech so it's kind of pointlessly even at Scotland they don't understand it. 'Zen song daily going is just twilight,' says author after reading an English translation because it's quite short. He adds: 'It spans reconsituting all the billion tedious skills of humanhood'
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