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Don Paterson

Scottish poet, writer and musician whose collections include Landing Light, which won the TS Eliot Prize and Whitbread Award in 2003, and Orpheus.

Scottish poet, writer and musician whose collections include Landing Light, which won the TS Eliot Prize and Whitbread Award in 2003, and Orpheus.

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