Don Paterson
Don Paterson, poet and musician, was born in
‘Although Paterson’s poetry employs all the techniques of reflexivity – language games, metafiction, unreliable narration – that are usually thought of as definitively “postmodern”, it does so without falling prey to an enervated and dislocated subjectivity … In Landing Light Paterson seems to have found a new depth of purpose and moral seriousness for his flinty wit to spark off’ (Adam Newey).
The following recordings were made at the Louis MacNeice
Centenary Celebration and Conference at Queen's University,
I love all films that start with rain
© All recordings copyright Don Paterson and the Seamus Heaney Centre for Poetry.
Don read with Paul Farley, Sinead Morrissey and Paul Muldoon.