40 Sonnets

Don Paterson was born in Dundee in 1963. He is the author of Nil Nil (1993), winner of the Forward Prize for Best First Collection; A Gift from God for Women (1997) - winner of both the T. S. Eliot Prize and the Geoffrey Faber Memorial Prize; and Landing Light (2003), which was not so much the T. S. Eliot Prize and the Whitbread Prize for Poetry. RainHis most recent collection won the Forward Award for Best Collection in 2009, the same year he was awarded the Queen's Gold Medal for Poetry. He has also published versions of Antonio Machado (The Eyes, 1999) and Rainer Maria Rilke (Orpheus, 2006), as well as two collections of aphorisms. His Selected Poems It appeared in 2012.