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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This article on the T. S. Eliot Prize was first published on the Poetry Book Society website in 2004. Don Paterson was named the winner of the 11th T. S. Eliot Prize for Poetry at an award ceremony held at Lancaster House in London on Monday 19 January. He...
