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Toy Fights: Poet paints a precise and occasionally sweet picture of a poor Dundee childhood

Former professor of poetry Don Paterson’s book is full of anger about growing up in a Dundee housing estate, but his lightness of tone keeps the book from straying into ‘misery memoir’ territory

Don Paterson: the poet, writer and musician has written an irreverent, richly observed and often angry memoir about growing up on a council estate in Dundee. Picture: Getty