DON PATERSON – GOD’S GIFT TO WOMEN

…
let us praise the Lord
…
this silence
…

pg.56 faber and faber 1997

Don Paterson was born in Dundee in 1963
he works as a musician and editor and teaches
at the University of St Andrews
he has written four collection of poetry:
Nil Nil, God’s Gift to Women -winner of both T.S.Eliot
and the Geoffrey Faber Memorial Prize-
The Eyes and Landing Light -winner of the Whitbread Prize for Poetry
and T.S.Eliot Prize.
he lives in Kirriemuir, Angus.