In this episode, Francesco and Olivier talk to two-time T.S. Eliot Prize winner Don Paterson about musical and poetic composition, the threats of social media to poetry, and the linguistic differences between Scots and English.
Francesco Cipriani is a Master’s student at the University of Oxford, Jesus College, studying Classics, as well as Events Coordinator for the Oxford University Poetry Society. Olivier de France is currently completing a PhD at the European Studies Centre at St Antony College, University of Oxford, as well as being co-president of the Oxford University Poetry Society. Don Paterson is a two- time T.S. Eliot Prize winner for his collections God's Gift to Women and Landing Light. He has also won three Forward Prizes, the Geoffrey Faber Memorial Prize, the Whitbread Poetry award and the Costa Poetry award. He was awarded the Queen's Gold Medal for Poetry in 2009. He is a fellow of the Royal Society of Literature as well as a translator, editor and jazz musician and composer. Don Paterson’s Arctic and Toy Fights: A Boyhood, published by Faber, can be found at these links: https://www.faber.co.uk/product/9780571338191-the-arctic/; https://www.faber.co.uk/product/9780571240289-toy-fights/