Prof Don Paterson
Education and Experience
Don Paterson was born and schooled in Dundee. Before becoming Creative Writing Fellow at the University of Dundee, he worked as a professional musician and composer, as an arts columnist for Scotland on Sunday, and as video games reviewer for the Times. Don has also written drama for the radio and for the stage, and he has been Poetry Editor for Picador since 1997. His work has received the Forward and Whitbread Poetry Prizes, the Geoffrey Faber Memorial Award, and the T S Eliot Prize, twice. Don is a Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature and a Fellow of English Association; he was awarded the OBE in 2008, and the Queen's Gold Medal for Poetry in 2010.
Don regrets that he cannot be contacted through the University regarding any matters relating to Picador Macmillan.
Research Interests
Don has published five collections of poetry, two books of aphorism, a number of edited anthologies, and a commentary on Shakespeare’s Sonnets. He is currently working on a new collection of poetry, a lengthy technical manual on ars poetica, and a prose book about music.
PhD Supervision
Ellen Cranitch, Claudia Daventry, Faith Lawrence, Paolo Manalo, Sally Rogers
