Don Paterson Poems

Don Paterson is a Scottish poet whose first collection, Nil Nil, won the Forward Prize. He also won the T.S. Eliot Prize and the 2003 Whitebread Poetry Award. He currently teaches English at the University of St Andrews and edits for Picador.

Rain

by Don Paterson

‘Rain’ by Don Paterson describes the way that rain acts as an equalizing force capable of washing away one’s concern for the past. 

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