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Don Paterson: Toy Fights

Name: Don Paterson: Toy Fights
Start: 2025-06-13T20:30:00+01:00
End: 2025-06-13T21:30:00+01:00
Location: Buccleuch Marquee

Award-winning poet Don Paterson reflects on his wild Scottish childhood, music, mental health and survival in a raw, funny memoir.

Friday, 13 June 2025

8:30pm ‐ 9:30pm

Buccleuch Marquee
Harmony Garden and Orchard, St Mary's Road, Melrose, TD6 9LJ

https://tikt.link/donpat

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Toy Fights: A Boyhood is the best memoir of growing up on a Scottish council estate, the best evocation of a troubled adolescence, of how a love of music can be completely absorbing, but also the most chilling evocation of what a breakdown is like, from the inside. Don Paterson is one of Britain’s most gifted poets, having won the Forward Prize, the T. S. Eliot Prize and the Queen’s Gold Medal for Poetry in 2009. The Financial Times wrote about Toy Fights as ‘a book that swan-dives into the filthy waters of growing up and resurfaces clear-eyed, bearing pearls’. It does indeed; a superb piece of writing.