Don Paterson

Don Paterson is the author of sixteen books of poetry, aphorism, criticism, and poetic theory. His poetry has won many awards, including the Whitbread Poetry Prize, the Geoffrey Faber Memorial Prize, the Costa Poetry Award, and three Forward Prizes; he is the only poet to have won the T.S. Eliot Prize on two occasions. He is Professor Emeritus at the University of St Andrews and for twenty-five years was Poetry Editor at Picador Macmillan. He is a Fellow of the English Association, the Royal Society of Literature, and the Royal Society of Edinburgh. He received the Queen’s Gold Medal for Poetry in 2010. His recent books include The Arctic (Faber, 2022) and a memoir, Toy Fights (Liveright, 2023). He lives in Kirriemuir, Scotland.