Paterson, Don
Entry updated 26 August 2024. Tagged: Author.
(1963- ) Scottish academic, editor, musician, composer and author, active from the late 1980s. His Poetry, which has been assembled in several collections beginning with Nil Nil (coll 1993 chap), is vigorous, formally inventive, various. Of specific sf interest is Zonal (coll of linked poems 2020 chap), a set of explorations into something like autobiography through the lenses of Fantastika, each poem based inexplicitly on episodes from the first season of The Twilight Zone (1959-1960). The labyrinths of later serial Television series frequently serve as venues, conspicuously including the carceral Media Landscapes typical of a series like Black Mirror (2011-2019). The Near Future is occasionally entered. [JC]
Donald Paterson
born Dundee, Scotland: 1963
works (highly selected)
- Zonal (London: Faber and Faber, 2020) [poetry: coll of linked poems: chap: hb/Pentagram]
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