Don Paterson

Donald Paterson

Career

Paterson won an

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 by

Honours and awards

He was appointed

• Nil Nil. London:
  Forward Poetry Prize
  for Best First Collection)
• God's Gift to Women. London: Faber and Faber. 1997.
• The Eyes (poetry collection)|The Eyes, after
  ISBN 9780571200559
• White Lie (poetry collection)|White Lie,
  ISBN 9781555973537
• Landing Light, 2003
• Orpheus (poetry collection)|Orpheus after Rilke, 2006
• ISBN 9781466880689
  . (winner of Forward Poetry Prize)
• Selected Poems, Faber and Faber, 2012,
  ISBN 9780571281787
• 40 Sonnets, Faber and Faber, 2015,
  ISBN 9780571310890 (shortlisted for the 2016 Griffin Poetry Prize
  )
• Contributor to A New Divan: A Lyrical Dialogue Between East and West, Gingko Library, 2019,
  ISBN 9781909942288
• Zonal, Faber and Faber, 2020,
  ISBN 9780571338245
• The Arctic, Faber and Faber, 2022,
  ISBN 9780571338184

Anthologies

• 101 Sonnets, 1999
• Last Words, 1999, with (Jo Shapcott)
• Robert Burns, poems selected by Don Paterson, 2001
• New British Poetry with
  ISBN 9781555973940

List of poems

This list is incomplete; you can help by adding missing items. (April 2018)

Title	Year	First published	Reprinted/collected
"Wave"	2014	The New Yorker[12]

Plays

• 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 Picador, 2004,
  ISBN 9780330431842
• The Blind Eye (2007)
• Best Thought, Worst Thought (2008)

Criticism

• Reading Shakespeare's Sonnets: A New Commentary. Faber and Faber. 2010.
  ISBN 978-0-571-26399-8
  .
• Smith: A Reader's Guide to the Poetry of Michael Donaghy (2014)
• The Poem. Faber and Faber. 2018.
  ISBN 9780571206629
  .

Critical studies and reviews of Paterson's work

• Chiasson, Dan (19 April 2010). "Forms of attention : Don Paterson's 'Rain'". The Critics. Books. The New Yorker. Vol. 86, no. 9.
• Pollard, Natalie, ed. (2014). Don Paterson: Contemporary Critical Essays. Edinburgh, U.K.: Edinburgh University Press.
  OCLC 903488793
  .

References

1. ^ ^{a b c} Foundation, Poetry (29 July 2020). "Don Paterson". Poetryfoundation.org. Retrieved 29 July 2020.
2. ^ ^{a b} "Don Paterson | Poet". Scottishpeotrylibrary.org.uk. Retrieved 29 July 2020.
3. ^ ^{a b} "Picador". Panmacmillan.com. Retrieved 29 July 2020.
4. ^ "Don Paterson". Poetry Archive. Retrieved 29 July 2020.
5. ^ Miller, Phil (15 February 2016). "Acclaimed poet reveals he is writing play about Jimmy Savile". HeraldScotland.com. Retrieved 29 July 2020.
6. ^ Paterson, Don (14 September 2012). "A post-Creative Scotland". HeraldScotland.com. Retrieved 29 July 2020.
7. ^ "St Anne's College, Oxford > About the College > Weidenfeld Visiting Professorship in Comparative European Literature". Archived from the original on 5 September 2018. Retrieved 29 May 2018.
8. ^ "No. 58729". The London Gazette (Supplement). 14 June 2008. p. 12.
9. ^ "The Queen's Gold Medal for Poetry 2009". royal.uk. 1 December 2009. Retrieved 16 June 2009.
10. ^ "Don Paterson awarded Queen's Medal for Poetry". BBC News. 31 December 2009. Retrieved 16 June 2023.
11. ^ "Professor Don Paterson OBE FRSE". The Royal Society of Edinburgh. Retrieved 12 February 2018.
12. ^ "Wave". The New Yorker. Vol. 90, no. 2. 3 March 2014. p. 65.

External links

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• Poet's official website
• "Private Enterprise for the Public Good" John Stammers interviews Don Paterson. No 12 - Spring 1998 Magma
• Paterson profile at Poetry Foundation
• Profile at Scottish Poetry Library
• Biography and bibliography at British Council Contemporary Writers site
• Biography, poetry excerpts from Griffin Poetry Prize website