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Stuart A. Paterson

b.1966

Stuart Paterson © Jim McEwan
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Stuart A. Paterson is a Scottish poet and performer, widely published in newspapers and magazines at home and abroad. His poetry collections are Mulaney of Larne and other poems (University of Leiden, Scottish Writers series, 1991), Saving Graces (Diehard, 1997), Border Lines (Indigo Dreams, 2015), and Aye (Tapsalteerie, 2016), poems in Scots, Looking South (Indigo Dreams, 2017), and heelster-gowdie / beul-fo-bhonn (Tapsalteerie, 2017) with Marcas Mac an Tuairneir. He has had work published in many anthologies, including Scotia Nova: poems for the early days of a better nation (Luath, 2015) and Dream State: the new Scottish poets (1994, 2002), for which he wrote the title poem. 

Stuart Paterson received an Eric Gregory Award from the Society of Authors in 1992 and a Robert Louis Stevenson Fellowship from the Scottish Book Trust in 2014. He was writer-in-residence for Dumfries & Galloway 1996-98, and was appointed the Scots Language Centre’s Virtual Poet in Residence 2015-2016. In 2017, he was appointed BBC Scotland Poet in Residence. He lives in Galloway, south-west Scotland.

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  • Stetuaes
  • In Days of Darkness
  • Except for Iain
  • Bright
  • Sanctified
  • Andra on November 30th
  • Almorness
  • Remembering Then, Remembering Now
  • Buddy, Can You Spare a Rhyme?
  • Diwali, Manchester 2001
  • Happiness
  • Heart
  • Here’s the Weather
  • Breenge
  • Borders

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