Don Paterson
Don Paterson works as a poetry editor and as a jazz guitarist, and lectures in creative writing at the University of St Andrews. In 2003 his poetry collection Landing Light won the Whitbread Poetry Prize and the T.S. Eliot Prize. He is the author of several other poetry collections, including Rain, Orpheus and 40 Sonnets.
Don Paterson on Granta.com
Poetry | The Online Edition
Metamorphosis: Poems Inspired by Titian
Various Contributors
‘The beasts of the forest drove me out. / The villagers barred their doors. / The gods turned the page.’
Poetry | The Online Edition
The Self-Illuminated
Don Paterson
Don Paterson reads his poem, ‘The Self-Illuminated’ in memoriam Peter Porter, from Granta 119: Britain.
Poetry | Issue 119
The Self-Illuminated
Don Paterson
‘One, perhaps his psalter, / the other, a manuscript, or a portable altar.’