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Don Paterson: The Zoo of the New: A Book of Exceptional Poems from Sappho to Paul Muldoon [2018] paperback CULTF The Deputy uses ancient laws'So open it anywhere, then anywhere, then anywhere again. We're sure it won't be long before you find a poem that brings you smack into the newness and strangeness of the living present, just as it did us' (from the Introduction) In The Zoo of the New, poets Don Paterson and Nick Laird have cast a fresh eye over more than five centuries of verse, from the English language and beyond. Above all, they have sought poetry that retains, in one way or