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Don Paterson

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Donald "Don" Paterson, OBE, FRSL, FRSE (born 1963) is a Scottish poet, writer and musician. [1]

31 relations: Antonio Machado, Charles Simic, Creative Scotland, Dundee, Eric Gregory Award, Fellow of the Royal Society of Edinburgh, Forward Prizes for Poetry, Geoffrey Faber Memorial Prize, Gordon McPherson, Griffin Poetry Prize, Heaney, Jo Shapcott, Landing Light, Order of the British Empire, Picador (imprint), Poetry Society, Queen's Gold Medal for Poetry, Rain (poetry collection), Rainer Maria Rilke, Royal Society of Edinburgh, Royal Society of Literature, Scottish Arts Council, St Anne's College, Oxford, T. S. Eliot Prize, The Herald (Glasgow), Tim Garland, University of St Andrews, William Shakespeare, 2003 Whitbread Awards, 2008 Birthday Honours, 2010 New Year Honours.

Antonio Machado

Antonio Machado, in full Antonio Cipriano José María y Francisco de Santa Ana Machado y Ruiz (26 July 1875 – 22 February 1939), was a Spanish poet and one of the leading figures of the Spanish literary movement known as the Generation of '98.

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Charles Simic

Charles Simic (Душан "Чарлс" Симић; born Dušan Simić; May 9, 1938) is a Serbian-American poet and was co-poetry editor of the Paris Review.

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Creative Scotland

Creative Scotland (Alba Chruthachail, Creative Scotlan) is the development body for the arts and creative industries in Scotland.

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Dundee

Dundee (Dùn Dè) is Scotland's fourth-largest city and the 51st-most-populous built-up area in the United Kingdom.

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Eric Gregory Award

The Eric Gregory Award is a literary award given by the Society of Authors to British poets under 30 on submission.

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Fellow of the Royal Society of Edinburgh

Fellowship of the Royal Society of Edinburgh (FRSE) is an award granted to individuals that the Royal Society of Edinburgh, Scotland judges to be "eminently distinguished in their subject".

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Forward Prizes for Poetry

The Forward Prizes for Poetry are awards for poetry, presented annually at a ceremony in London.

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Geoffrey Faber Memorial Prize

The Geoffrey Faber Memorial Prize is a British literary prize established in 1963 in tribute to Geoffrey Faber, founder and first Chairman of the publisher Faber & Faber.

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Gordon McPherson

Gordon McPherson (born 1965) is a Scottish composer.

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Griffin Poetry Prize

The Griffin Poetry Prize is Canada's most generous poetry award.

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Heaney

Heaney is a surname of Irish origin.

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Jo Shapcott

Jo Shapcott FRSL (born 24 March 1953, London) is an English poet, editor and lecturer who has won the National Poetry Competition, the Commonwealth Poetry Prize, the Costa Book of the Year Award, a Forward Poetry Prize and the Cholmondeley Award.

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Landing Light

Landing Light (foaled 9 May 1995) was an Irish-bred Thoroughbred racehorse.

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Order of the British Empire

The Most Excellent Order of the British Empire is a British order of chivalry, rewarding contributions to the arts and sciences, work with charitable and welfare organisations, and public service outside the Civil service.

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Picador (imprint)

Picador is an imprint of Pan Macmillan in the United Kingdom and Australia and of Macmillan Publishing in the United States.

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Poetry Society

The Poetry Society is a membership organisation, open to all, whose stated aim is "to promote the study, use and enjoyment of poetry".

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Queen's Gold Medal for Poetry

The Queen's Gold Medal for Poetry is awarded for a book of verse published by someone in any of the Commonwealth realms.

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Rain (poetry collection)

Rain is a collection of poetry by the Scottish poet Don Paterson.It was published in 2009 by Faber and Faber and won the Forward poetry prize for best poetry collection of the same year.

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Rainer Maria Rilke

René Karl Wilhelm Johann Josef Maria Rilke (4 December 1875 – 29 December 1926), better known as Rainer Maria Rilke, was a Bohemian-Austrian poet and novelist.

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Royal Society of Edinburgh

The Royal Society of Edinburgh is Scotland's national academy of science and letters.

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Royal Society of Literature

The Royal Society of Literature (RSL) is a learned society founded in 1820, by King George IV, to "reward literary merit and excite literary talent".

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Scottish Arts Council

The Scottish Arts Council (Comhairle Ealain na h-Alba, Scots Airts Cooncil) was a Scottish public body responsible for the funding, development and promotion of the arts in Scotland.

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St Anne's College, Oxford

St Anne's College is one of the constituent colleges of the University of Oxford in England.

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T. S. Eliot Prize

The T. S. Eliot Prize for Poetry is a prestigious prize that was, for many years, awarded by the Poetry Book Society (UK) to "the best collection of new verse in English first published in the UK or the Republic of Ireland" in any particular year.

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The Herald (Glasgow)

The Herald is a Scottish broadsheet newspaper founded in 1783.

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Tim Garland

Tim Garland (born 19 October 1966) is a British jazz saxophonist, composer, and bandleader.

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University of St Andrews

The University of St Andrews (informally known as St Andrews University or simply St Andrews; abbreviated as St And, from the Latin Sancti Andreae, in post-nominals) is a British public research university in St Andrews, Fife, Scotland.

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William Shakespeare

William Shakespeare (26 April 1564 (baptised)—23 April 1616) was an English poet, playwright and actor, widely regarded as both the greatest writer in the English language, and the world's pre-eminent dramatist.

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2003 Whitbread Awards

Winner.

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2008 Birthday Honours

The Queen's Birthday Honours 2008 were appointments by some of the 16 Commonwealth realms to various orders and honours to recognise and reward good works by citizens of those countries.

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2010 New Year Honours

The New Year Honours 2010, was announced on 31 December 2009 in the United Kingdom, New Zealand, Cook Islands, Barbados, Grenada, Papua New Guinea, Solomon Islands, Saint Lucia, Belize, Antigua and Barbuda, Saint Christopher and Nevis and other Commonwealth realms to celebrate the year passed and mark the beginning of 2010.

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References

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Don_Paterson

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