Don Paterson (born 1963) is a Scottish poet and musician who was awarded the T. S. Eliot Prize for poetry for the second time in six years in 2004, and having already won the poetry category narrowly missed the same year's Whitbread Prize. 1963 was a common year starting on Tuesday (link will take you to calendar). ... Scotland (Alba in Scottish Gaelic) is a country and constituent nation of the United Kingdom. ... Poets are authors of poems, or of other forms of poetry such as dramatic verse. ... A musician is a person who plays or composes music. ... Bust of Homer, one of the earliest European poets, in the British Museum Poetry (ancient Greek: ποιεω (poieo) = I create) is an art form in which human language is used for its aesthetic qualities in addition to, or instead of, its notional and semantic content. ... 2004 is a leap year starting on Thursday of the Gregorian calendar. ... The Whitbread Book Awards are among the United Kingdoms most prestigious literary awards. ...

Life and Career

Born in Dundee, Scotland, he was initially interested in a career in music and spent four to five years touring with bands and jazz acts in the local area. After spending time in Brighton he ended up in London in 1995 to take up the post of Poetry Editor at Picador. He returned to Scotland in Edinburgh in 1998 to write a computer games column with poet Jo Shapcott for The Times, write other journalism and concentrate on his verse. Dundees location in Scotland Dundee (Dùn Dèagh in Gaelic) is Scotlands fourth largest city, population 154,674 (2001), situated on the North bank of the Firth of Tay. ... Scotland (Alba in Scottish Gaelic) is a country and constituent nation of the United Kingdom. ... Wikibooks Wikiversity has more about this subject: School of Music Look up Music in Wiktionary, the free dictionary Wikisource, as part of the 1911 Encyclopedia Wikiproject, has original text related to this article: Music Wikicities has a wiki about Music: Music Music City : a collaborative music database All Music Guide... Brighton on the southern Sussex coast is one of the largest and most famous seaside resorts in England. ... St. ... Bull attacking a matador Bullfighting or tauromachy (Spanish toreo, corrida de toros or tauromaquia; Portuguese tourada, corrida de touros or tauromaquia) is a blood sport that involves, most of the time, professional performers (matadores) who execute various formal moves with the goal of appearing graceful and confident, while masterful over... Edinburghs location in Scotland Edinburgh viewed from Arthurs Seat. ... Biography Poet Jo Shapcott was born in London in 1953. ... The Times is a national newspaper published daily in the United Kingdom. ... Journalism is a discipline of collecting, verifying, analyzing and presenting information gathered regarding current events, including trends, issues and people. ... Verse is a writing that uses meter as its primary organisational mode, as opposed to prose, which uses grammatical and discoursal units like sentences and paragraphs. ...

Aside from a series for BBC Radio 4 entitled Kailyard Blues and a melodrama called The Land of Cakes for Dundee Rep, he was awarded the TS Eliot Prize for poetry in 1997 for the work God's Gift to Women. His 2003 work Landing Light repeated the trick. The British Broadcasting Corporation (BBC) was formed in 1927 by means of a royal charter. ...

Paterson was for some time a member of the jazz/celtic folk band Lammas, which released the albums Lammas (1991), This Morning (1994), The Broken Road (1995), Sourcebook (1997) and Sea Changes (1999). Jazz is a musical art form characterized by blue notes, syncopation, swing, call and response, polyrhythms, and improvisation. ... The term Celtic music encompasses Irish traditional music and traditional musics of Scotland; Cape Breton Island and Maritime Canada; Quebec; Wales; the Isle of Man; Northumberland (northern England); France); Cornwall; and Galicia (northwestern Spain). ...

Works

Poetry

• Nil Nil (1993)
• God's Gift to Women (1997)
• The Eyes (1999)
• 101 Sonnets (1999) (editor)
• Last Words (1999) with (Jo Shapcott) (editor)
• White Lie (2001)
• Robert Burns, Poems selected by Don Paterson (2001) (editor)
• Landing Light (2003)

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• The Land Of Cakes (with Gordon McPherson) (2001)
• A'body's Aberdee (2001)

Radio Drama

• Kailyard Blues (1999)
• Ringing the Changes (1999) with (Jo Shapcott)
• The Aberdee Brief (2000)
• The Latecomers (2001)

Aphorisms Biography Poet Jo Shapcott was born in London in 1953. ...

• The Book of Shadows (2004)