Poetry newslog January 2004

January 18, 2006 January 19, 2004
Second T S Eliot Prize for Paterson
After winning the Whitbread Award for Poetry earlier this month, Scottish poet Don Paterson has now won this year's T S Eliot Prize for his collection Landing Light. In doing so, he has become the first poet to be awarded the Eliot twice; in 1997 he already won the prize for his collection God's Gift to Women. Paterson received a cheque for 10,000 British pounds at an awards ceremony in London, the BBC writes. According to the jury, his work is "superbly authoritative, deeply felt, playful and properly ambitious."

January 15, 2004
French prize for oeuvre Jacottet
Swiss poet and translator Philippe Jacottet has been awarded the Goncourt-Adrien Bertrand prize for his entire oeuvre. The prize, worth 6,000 euros, is an initiative of the Académie Goncourt.

January 7, 2004
Paterson wins Whitbread
Dundee-born poet Don Paterson has won the 2003 Whitbread Award for Poetry for his fourth collection Landing Light, the BBC reports. The jury praised Paterson for his "exceptional range of subjects and forms". Paterson will compete with the winners in the other Whitbread categories for the overall 2003 Whitbread Book of the Year, to be announced on Tuesday 27th January, 2004.