Shell Vestige Disputed by Ian Patterson Elhum Shakerifar This was Patrick Neate's comment

This was Patrick Neate's comment on the BBC Poetry Season website: 'Passionate about poetry and its power to change people's lives

sorrow and yearning

illustrating the things poets have in common

His first collection of poems

Shell Vestige Disputed by Ian Patterson Elhum Shakerifar This was Patrick Neate's commentIan Pattersons Shell Vestige Disputed presents poems which take great pleasure in the mystery of language. Patterson writes with a clear focus on the stress and intonation of words and phrases, crafting complex and puzzling poems which are reminiscent of Prynne and the English surrealists. Shell Vestige Disputed is a collection full of beauty and surprise. ABOUT Ian Patterson: Ian Patterson taught English for almost twenty years at Queens College,