Zonal Av Don Paterson

Don Paterson’s latest collection of poetry starts from the premise that the crisis of mid-life may be a permanent state of mind. <i>Zonal </i>is an experiment in science-fictional and fantastic autobiography, with all of its poems taking their imaginative cue from the first season of <i>The Twilight Zone </i>(1959–1960), playing fast and loose with both their source material and their author’s own life. Narrative and dramatic in approach, genre-hopping from horror to <i>Black Mirror</i>-style sci-fi, ‘weird tale’ to metaphysical fantasy, these poems change voices constantly in an attempt to get at the truth by alternate means. Occupying the shadowlands between confession and invention, <i>Zonal</i> takes us to places and spaces that feel endlessly surprising, uncanny and limitless.