The Honey Gatherers: A Book of Love Poems Enitharmon Press Alasdair Paterson was born in

Alasdair Paterson was born in Edinburgh and worked as an academic librarian in Liverpool

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The Honey Gatherers: A Book of Love Poems Enitharmon Press Alasdair Paterson was born inThe Honey Gatherers takes its title from a phrase in Michael Ondaatje's The Cinnamon Peeler, a poem which describes the need to be marked, and marked out, by love. The search, the sweetness, the sting and the death of love, are all to be found in this anthology. Wide ranging in its inclusiveness, The Honey Gatherers celebrates the great passions of John Donne, Christina Rossetti, Shakespeare, Keats, Sir Thomas Wyatt and the beloved Anon, whilst