Don Paterson
Poet, musician and editor
Scottish poet, musician and editor. His collection Landing Light, won the T.S. Eliot Prize and the Whitbread Poetry Award.
with discreet complicity, the road swerves to avoid the solitary cloud.
From ‘Exeunt’ in Nil Nil (London: Faber & Faber, 1993)
your chisel struck upon me holding my breath
From ‘To the Sculptor Emiliano Barral’ in Atlanta Review (Spring/Summer 1998)