Don Paterson - Works

Poet, writer, and musician, born in Dundee, E Scotland, UK. In 1993 he was appointed writer-in-residence at the University of Dundee and later moved to London (1995) as poetry editor at Picador publishing group, a position he still holds. Since 1998 he has lived in Scotland and works as a reviewer and columnist for several newspapers. His first poetry collection Nil Nil (1993) won the Forward Prize for best first collection, and he is the only person to have gained the T S Eliot Prize twice, for God's Gift to Women (1997) and Landing Light (2003, also Whitbread Poetry Award). He is also editor of 101 Sonnets: From Shakespeare to Heaney (1999), and has written plays for radio and theatre. An accomplished jazz guitarist, he works solo and with the jazz-folk ensemble Lammas.

Don Paterson (born 1963) is a Scottish poet and musician who was awarded the T.

Aside from a series for BBC Radio 4 entitled Kailyard Blues and a melodrama called The Land of Cakes for Dundee Rep, he was awarded the TS Eliot Prize for poetry in 1997 for the work God's Gift to Women.

Paterson was for some time a member of the jazz/celtic folk band Lammas, which released the albums Lammas (1991), This Morning (1994), The Broken Road (1995), Sourcebook (1997) and Sea Changes (1999).

Works

Poetry

Nil Nil (1993) — winner of the Forward Poetry Prize for Best First Collection. God's Gift to Women (1997) The Eyes (1999) 101 Sonnets (1999) (editor) Last Words (1999) with (Jo Shapcott) (editor) White Lie (2001) Robert Burns, Poems selected by Don Paterson (2001) (editor) Landing Light (2003)

Drama

The Land Of Cakes (with Gordon McPherson) (2001) A'body's Aberdee (2001)

Radio Drama

Kailyard Blues (1999) Ringing the Changes (1999) with (Jo Shapcott) The Aberdee Brief (2000) The Latecomers (2001)

Aphorisms

The Book of Shadows (2004)