T S Eliot/ Whitbread winner Don Paterson in Brighton
Posted on 21/02/2004FRI MAR 5 8-10 pm (doors open 7.30pm) Bar provided
DON PATERSON: THE READING
Sallis Benny Theatre, University of Brighton, Grand Parade Adult £10, OAP/Cons £7.50, Students £5 All tickets Brighton Dome Box Office 01273 709709 Access for all. For groups of 10 or more please phone 01273 242850
SAT MAR 6 11am-1pm (Doors/coffee 10.30)
DON PATERSON: THE MASTERCLASS
The Poem and the Process - a symposium on the art of poetry Sallis Benny Theatre, University of Brighton, Grand Parade Adult £10, OAP/Cons £7.50, Students £5 All tickets Brighton Dome Box Office 01273 709709 Access for all. For groups of 10 or more please phone 01273 242850
Award winning poet returns to Brighton for one-off performance and masterclass:
Don Paterson, one of today’s best poets, reads his work at the Sallis Benney Theatre at the University of Brighton on 5 March, ten years after leaving the city.
Don will be reading from his most recent and highly acclaimed work Landing Light, for which he received this year’s Whitbread Poetry Award. The collection also won Don the prestigious T S Eliot Prize making him the only poet to have won it twice.
Don Patterson said today ‘I’m very pleased to be coming back to Brighton, the most poetic town in the whole of England, after so long away.’
As a young poet Don was based in Brighton and with others in the early 1990s he set up Brighton Poets. Through it he organised poetry workshops and events which have left a long term legacy of new poets and love of poetry in the city. THE SOUTH. (www.thesouth.org.uk), run by former student John Davies, has invited Don to give a masterclass on the morning of March 6. This is a rare chance for aspiring writers and lovers of words to gain an insight into the mind and work of an expert artist and technician.
As well as poetry, Don writes drama for the stage and for radio, and has worked as a book reviewer, columnist and music journalist for several national newspapers, and a computer games reviewer for the Times. As a jazz guitarist, he has worked solo and with the ensemble Lammas, with whom he recorded five albums. A new father of twin boys he currently resides in his native Scotland. What people say about him: ‘It’s a long time since I’ve been knocked sideways by a book of poems.’ AS Byatt, New Statesman
‘one of the most ferociously talented of all British poets’ Catherine Lockerbie, The Scotsman
‘If you are wondering whether great poems are still being written, you ought to read Don Paterson’s.’ Charles Simic
‘the most animated and animating volume of new poems I have read for years’ - Patrick Crotty, TLS
‘It is the very height of his standards that set him apart. He remains one of the best young poets around’ John Redmond
‘[The Eyes] is a beautiful volume, of considerable charm, intelligence and soul. Buy it for your most thoughtful friend this Christmas.’ Robert Potts, Guardian
‘the electrifying Paterson’
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