Life and Career

Innate around Dundee, Scotland, he was initially interested around the career around music & spent four to 5 years road by having elastic and jazz acts in the local front yard. When spending instance around Brighton he ended up within London in 1995 to take higher a post of Poetry Editor at Picador. He returned to Scotland inside Edinburgh in 1998 to write a computer games column by using poet Jo Shapcott for The Times, write other journalism and concentrate on his verse.

Aside from either the series for BBC Radio 4 entitled Kailyard Blues and the melodrama known as A Land of Cakes for Dundee Rep, he was awarded a TS Eliot Prize for poetry within 1997 for the function ''God's Gift to Women. His 2003 operate Landing Weak repeated a trick.

Paterson was for the bit of instance a member of the jazz/celtic folk band Lammas, which released a albums Lammas (1991), This Morning (1994), A Broken Road (1995), Sourcebook (1997) & Sea Changes'' (1999).

Works

Poetry

Nil Nil (1993) — winner of the Forward Poetry Prize for Best 1st Collection. God's Gift to Women (1997) A Eyes (1999) 101 Sonnets (1999) (editor) Previous Words (1999) by owning (Jo Shapcott) (editor) Whiten Lie (2001) Robert Burns, Poems selected by Don Paterson (2001) (editor) Landing Weak (2003)

Drama

A Land Of Cakes (using Gordon McPherson) (2001) The'immune system's Aberdee (2001)

Radio Drama

Kailyard Blues (1999) Ringing a Changes (1999) by having (Jo Shapcott) A Aberdee Brief (2000) A Latecomers (2001)

Aphorisms

A Book of Shadows (2004)