James Conor Patterson

James Conor Patterson is from Newry in the north of Ireland and currently lives in London. He won an Eric Gregory Award for bandit country in 2019 and fragments and versions of the poems appeared in publications including Magma, The Moth, New Statesman, Poetry Ireland Review, The Poetry Review, The Stinging Fly, Poetry London and The Tangerine. A selection of his poems was recently shortlisted for The White Review Poet’s Prize. bandit country, his debut collection, was shortlisted for the T. S. Eliot Prize 2022 and the 2023 John Pollard International Poetry Prize, and longlisted for the 2023 Michael Murphy Memorial Prize. Conor Patterson’s journalism and non-fiction have been widely published in The Guardian, i-D and The Irish Times among others. He is editor of the anthology The New Frontier: Reflections from the Irish Border, published by New Island. Author photo © Aimée Walsh