Don Paterson Explained

Don Paterson
Birth Name:Donald Paterson
Birth Place:Dundee, Scotland
Nationality:Scottish
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Notableworks:Nil Nil (1993); God's Gift to Women (1997); Landing Light (2003)
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Awards:Eric Gregory Award

Donald Paterson (born 1963 in Dundee)[1] is a Scottish poet, writer and musician. His work has won several awards, including the Forward Poetry Prize, the T. S. Eliot Prize and the Geoffrey Faber Memorial Prize. He was recipient of the Queen's Gold Medal for Poetry 2009.

Career

Paterson won an Eric Gregory Award in 1990 and his poem "A Private Bottling" won the Arvon Foundation International Poetry Competition in 1993.[2] He was included on the list of 20 poets chosen for the Poetry Society's 1994 "New Generation Poets" promotion.[2] In 2002, he was awarded a Scottish Arts Council Creative Scotland Award.[1]

His first collection of poetry, Nil Nil (1993), won the Forward Poetry Prize for Best First Collection. God's Gift to Women (1997) won the T. S. Eliot Prize and the Geoffrey Faber Memorial Prize. The Eyes, adaptations of the work of Spanish poet Antonio Machado (1875–1939), was published in 1999. He is the editor of 101 Sonnets: From Shakespeare to Heaney (1999) and of Last Words: New Poetry for the New Century (1999) with Jo Shapcott. Paterson's collection of poems Landing Light (2003) won both the 2003 T. S. Eliot Prize and the 2003 Whitbread Poetry Award.[3] He has also published three collections of aphorisms, The Book of Shadows (2004), The Blind Eye (2007) and Best Thought, Worst Thought (2008). Orpheus, his version of Rilke's Die Sonette an Orpheus, was published in 2006.

Paterson teaches in the school of English at the University of St Andrews and was the poetry editor for London publishers Picador for more than 25 years.[3] An accomplished jazz guitarist, he works solo and for ten years ran the jazz-folk ensemble Lammas with Tim Garland.[4] [5]

In 2012, Paterson wrote an open letter in The Herald criticising Scotland's arts funding council Creative Scotland.[6]

In 2012–2013, he was the Weidenfeld Visiting professor of European Comparative Literature in St Anne's College, Oxford.[7]

Paterson's memoir Toy Fights: A Boyhood was published Faber & Faber in January 2023.

Honours and awards

He was appointed Officer of the Order of the British Empire (OBE) in the 2008 Birthday Honours. He was awarded the Queen's Gold Medal for Poetry 2009.[8] [9] In 2015, Paterson was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society of Edinburgh.[10]

Bibliography

Poetry

Collections

He also has contributed to

Anthologies
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"Wave"2014The New Yorker[11]

Plays

Radio drama

Aphorisms

Criticism

Critical studies and reviews of Paterson's work

External links

Notes and References

  1. Web site: Don Paterson. Poetry. Foundation. 29 July 2020. Poetryfoundation.org. 29 July 2020.
  2. Web site: Don Paterson | Poet. Scottishpeotrylibrary.org.uk. 29 July 2020.
  3. Web site: Picador. Panmacmillan.com. 29 July 2020.
  4. Web site: Don Paterson. Poetry Archive. 29 July 2020.
  5. Web site: Acclaimed poet reveals he is writing play about Jimmy Savile. Phil. Miller. HeraldScotland.com. 15 February 2016. 29 July 2020.
  6. Web site: A post-Creative Scotland. Don. Paterson. HeraldScotland.com. 14 September 2012. 29 July 2020.
  7. Web site: St Anne's College, Oxford > About the College > Weidenfeld Visiting Professorship in Comparative European Literature . 29 May 2018 . 5 September 2018 . https://web.archive.org/web/20180905121903/http://www.st-annes.ox.ac.uk/about/weidenfeld-visiting-professorship-in-comparative-european-literature . dead .
  8. Web site: The Queen's Gold Medal for Poetry 2009. The Royal Family . 1 December 2009. 16 June 2009.
  9. Web site: Don Paterson awarded Queen's Medal for Poetry. BBC News. 31 December 2009. 16 June 2023.
  10. Web site: Professor Don Paterson OBE FRSE . The Royal Society of Edinburgh. 12 February 2018. en-GB . dead . https://web.archive.org/web/20180213023228/https://www.rse.org.uk/fellow/don-paterson/ . Feb 13, 2018 .
  11. March 3, 2014 . Wave . The New Yorker . 90 . 2 . 65 . Don . Paterson . live . https://web.archive.org/web/20230620161413/https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2014/03/03/wave-2 . Jun 20, 2023 .

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