Don Paterson was born in Dundee in 1963. His poetry collections include Nil Nil, God's Gift to Women, Landing Light, Rain, 40 Sonnets and Zonal. He is the author of three books of aphorism - The Book of Shadows, The Blind Eye and The Fall at Home - as well as translations of Antonio Machado and Rainer Maria Rilke. He is also the author of Reading Shakespeare's Sonnets, Smith: A Reader's Guide to t...