Toy Fights: A Boyhood (Uncorrected Bound Proof)

Uncorrected bound proof copy.  270pp.  Stiff card covers.  8vo.  Some gentle edge wear to card covers else neat, clean, bright and tight, An account - an autobiography of sorts -  from the Scottish poet and writer, Don Paterson, winner of the Forward Poetry Prize, the T S Eliot Prize and recipient of the Queen's Gold Medal for Poetry in 2009.  Paterson grew up poor, on a council housing estate in Dundee: when he wasn't dreading his birthdays or dodging kids who wanted to kill him in a game of Toy Fights, he was laving in love, dodging employment and descending into madness.  He didn't exactly find himself until he took a chance and boarded a train, with his guitar, bound for London.  A brutal and hilarious autobiography.