Don Paterson was born in Dundee, Scotland. He 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...
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In 2023 the T. S. Eliot Prize celebrated its 30th anniversary. We marked the occasion by looking back at the collections which have won ‘the Prize poets most want to win’ (Sir Andrew Motion). Don Paterson is the only poet to have won the T. S. Eliot Prize twice: in...
A centenary edition of the manuscript of The Waste Land shows how long poetry has been the beating heart of Faber & Faber, writes Jane Feaver, Editorial Manager To mark the centenary of the publication of The Waste Land, Faber will be publishing, among other things, a full-colour edition of...
This article on the early years of the T. S. Eliot Prize was written and added to the website in 2025. The winner of T. S. Eliot Prize 1993 was Ciaran Carson for his collection First Language, published by the Gallery Press. He was awarded £5,000, the generous gift...
