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Don Paterson lingers in the rain

The Scottish poet has produced his most direct work to date.

For most of us, particularly those staycationers at play on the storm-spun fields of Albion, the predicted barbeque summer of 2009 has been a disappointment.

The only demographic to feel some invigorating heat this year has been, of all groups, the poets.