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Don Paterson

Don Paterson works as a poetry editor and as a jazz guitarist, and lectures in creative writing at the University of St. Andrews. In 2003 his poetry collection Landing Light won the Whitbread Poetry Prize and the T.S. Eliot Prize. He is the author, most recently, of Rain.

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PoetryPoetry | The Online Edition

Poetry | The Online Edition

The Self-Illuminated

Don Paterson

‘One, perhaps his psalter, / the other, a manuscript, or a portable altar.’

PoetryPoetry | The Online Edition

Poetry | The Online Edition

Metamorphosis: Poems Inspired by Titian

Various Contributors

Titian’s interpretations of Ovid’s Metamorphoses prompted a new collection of poems inspired by these arresting...

FictionFiction | The Online Edition

Fiction | The Online Edition

The Self-Illuminated

Don Paterson

Don Paterson reads his poem, ‘The Self-Illuminated’ in memoriam Peter Porter, from Granta 119: Britain...

PoetryPoetry | The Online Edition

Poetry | The Online Edition

The Swing

Don Paterson

‘the honest fulcrum of the hour / that engineers our ghost’