COCKFIGHTS

In 1984, at the age of twenty, Don Paterson left Dundee with a guitar and two cardboard suitcases to begin a new life as a musician in London. Cockfights is the record of his early manhood: how he forged a persona to navigate a world he was unprepared for - and what happened when he chose the wrong one. It's also an electric tale of ambition, obsession and ill-fated relationships, the absurdity and sublimity of the touring circuit, and the chance encounter with poetry that sets Paterson on the path that will come to define him. But as...[Read more]