DON PATERSON Don Paterson, Scotland's most acclaimed poet, will read from his new collection "Rain".  One of only a handful of poets, including Ted Hughes, ever named an Officer of the Order of the British Empire, Paterson has steadily become one of the foremost figures in contemporary poetry, constructing poems of unparalleled power, grace, and style.   An accomplished Jazz guitarist, Paterson teaches at the University of Saint Andrews.  This event is free and open to all.   The Lie by Don Paterson As was my custom, I’d risen a full hour before the house had woken to make sure that everything was in order with The Lie, his drip changed and his shackles all secure. I was by then so practiced in this chore I’d counted maybe thirteen years or more since last I’d felt the urge to meet his eye. Such, I liked to think, was our rapport. I was at full stretch to test some ligature when I must have caught a ragged thread, and tore his gag away; though as he made no cry, I kept on with my checking as before. Why do you call me The Lie? he said. I swore: it was a child’s voice. I looked up from the floor. The dark had turned his eyes to milk and sky and his arms and legs were all one scarlet sore. He was a boy of maybe three or four. His straps and chains were all the things he wore. Knowing I could make him no reply I took the gag before he could say more and put it back as tight as it would tie and locked the door and locked the door and locked the door