About Don Paterson: Don Paterson is a Scottish poet, writer and musician.
Critics all have this idea that authors inhabit another dimensional realm, right up to their first smack in the mouth - which feels to them quite miraculous, being their sex-dream come true.
Mediocre art is far worse than bad art. Bad art does not waste our time.
Inconveniently, books are all the pages in them, not just the ones you choose to read.
After a long period of reflection, he decided that he was in fact right yet again.
Anything that elicits an immediate nod of recognition has only reconfirmed a prejudice.
