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Fisticuffs: Two boys street fighting. Don Paterson's new memoir is an honest account of his boyhood In the UK, Alice Oswald, Kathleen Jamie, Michael Longley and Paul Muldoon. Everyone should read Douglas Dunn. Of the North Americans, too many: Kay Ryan, Yusef Komunyakaa, Billy Collins, Terrance Hayes, Timothy Donnelly and Karen Solie. Jury is out on the younger cats. Diddy responds to rumours he wanted to fight Will Smith over threesome proposition with Jada Pinkett Smith and his ex Jennifer Lopez The Telegraph values your comments but kindly requests all posts are on topic, constructive and respectful. Please review ourThe Challenge star Nelson Thomas charged with DWI... months after being rescued from burning vehicle following car crash Don Paterson (pictured as a child) was born in 1963, a harsh time in Scotland. In line with Scottish educational policy at the time, discipline was enforced through corporal punishment, officially the threat and practice of beating children insensible

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It wasn’t cathartic,” says Paterson firmly. “But it was necessary at some level to make some account of it to myself. It just wasn’t a period of life that I ever wanted to remember. So it was interesting… No, it wasn’t interesting, it was quite horrible. And I don’t feel lightened as a result, but it could have assuaged something at some level.” Family readers Stacey Solomon, husband Joe Swash and their kids transform into The Wizard of Oz characters as they pose for sweet family snaps on Halloween I think this is one of the great books I’ve read about music. In part because it is really well written and frequently about music. Also in part because I think I’ve got similar taste to him (well, the good bits of my taste anyway - I love much of what he loves: free jazz, Maddy Prior, Robert Wyatt - but i also love Metallica who he apparently hates) and I find that flattering in some way. The young Don becomes obsessed with origami (a brilliant and wholly surprising passage), God, The Osmonds, the Boys’ Brigade and, of course, sex and girls. As a teenager, Paterson spent four months in a psychiatric hospital after being diagnosed with a schizophrenic episode. His writing on this experience stands out for its sobering illustration of a psychotic break, or what it means to “lose touch with reality,” and for avoiding a triumphant narrative of overcoming difficulty. He ends this part of the narrative by writing that it was several years before the experience “ceased to define me,” suggesting that the presence of the breakdown hasn’t been eliminated, merely minimized.

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An acupuncturist once told me I was addicted to the feeling of being dehydrated. I don’t know! It’s weird, but thanks for reminding me to take a swig. Sugar is a working-class analgesic and what I was raised on Most moving though are the moments of guilt-tinged reflection on the sacrifices of his father. Paterson describes him as “one of the best accompanists” he had ever met, a tribute that captures his selfless skill as a musician but also his life spent in service to other people as a father, husband and working man. We are encouraged not to forget that this is ultimately a “thankless craftsmanship” dictated in large part by his social class.