Don Paterson: Selected Poems Don Paterson

Poetry

Collections

• Nil Nil. London: Faber and Faber. 1993. (winner of the Forward Poetry Prize for Best First Collection)
• God's Gift to Women. London: Faber and Faber. 1997.
• The Eyes (poetry collection)|The Eyes, after Machado, Faber and Faber, 1999, ISBN 9780571200559
• White Lie (poetry collection)|White Lie, Graywolf Press, 2001, ISBN 9781555973537
• Landing Light, 2003
• Orpheus (poetry collection)|Orpheus after Rilke, 2006
• Rain. Farrar, Straus and Giroux. 2009. ISBN 9781466880689. (winner of Forward Poetry Prize)
• Selected Poems, Faber and Faber, 2012, ISBN 9780571281787
• 40 Sonnets, Faber and Faber, 2015, ISBN 9780571310890 (shortlisted for the 2016 Griffin Poetry Prize)
• Contributor to A New Divan: A Lyrical Dialogue Between East and West, Gingko Library, 2019, ISBN 9781909942288
• Zonal, Faber and Faber, 2020, ISBN 9780571338245
• The Arctic, Faber and Faber, 2022, ISBN 9780571338184

Anthologies

• 101 Sonnets, 1999
• Last Words, 1999, with (Jo Shapcott)
• Robert Burns, poems selected by Don Paterson, 2001
• New British Poetry with Charles Simic, Graywolf Press, 2004, ISBN 9781555973940

List of poems

Plays

• The Land of Cakes (with Gordon McPherson) (2001)
• A'body's Aberdee (2001)

Radio drama

• Kailyard Blues (1999)
• Ringing the Changes (1999) with (Jo Shapcott)
• The Aberdee Brief (2000)
• The Latecomers (2001)

Aphorisms

• The Book of Shadows Picador, 2004, ISBN 9780330431842
• The Blind Eye (2007)
• Best Thought, Worst Thought (2008)

Criticism

• Reading Shakespeare's Sonnets: A New Commentary. Faber and Faber. 2010. ISBN 978-0-571-26399-8.
• Smith: A Reader's Guide to the Poetry of Michael Donaghy (2014)
• The Poem. Faber and Faber. 2018. ISBN 9780571206629.

Critical studies and reviews of Paterson's work

• Chiasson, Dan (19 April 2010). "Forms of attention : Don Paterson's 'Rain'". The Critics. Books. The New Yorker. Vol. 86, no. 9.
• Pollard, Natalie, ed. (2014). Don Paterson: Contemporary Critical Essays. Edinburgh, U.K.: Edinburgh University Press. ISBN 9780748669424. OCLC 903488793.