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Ian Patterson

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Ian Patterson

Aliases: Ian Kenneth Patterson

Profile

Gender
Male
Born
1948-08-31
Nationality
United Kingdom
Languages
English
Residence History
Cambridge

Career

Occupations
Poet, translator, academic
Active Years
1974-2024
Affiliations
Queens' College, Cambridge

Education

Pembroke College, Cambridge
Faculty of English / English Literature
Degree: BA
Year of Graduation: 1969
Country: United Kingdom
King's College, Cambridge
English Literature
Degree: PhD
Period: 1990年代
Country: United Kingdom
Junior Research Fellowship in 1995
Queens' College, Cambridge
Faculty of English / English Literature
Period: 1999-2018
Country: United Kingdom
Senior Lecturer, Director of Studies in English, Fellow Librarian

Awards

Forward Prize
2017
Work: The Plenty of Nothing
Category: Best Single Poem
Organization: The Poetry Society
Result: winner

Awards & Nominations

Works

Major Works

Collected Poems 1975-2023

2024 Poetry

Collected poems from 1975 to 2023

losswar

Time to Get Here: Selected Poems 1969–2002

2003 Poetry

Selected poems 1969-2002

Guernica and Total War

2007 Non-fiction

Non-fiction about the bombing of Guernica and the Spanish Civil War

warhistory

Bibliography

  • Nemo's Almanac (Profile Books, 2017)
  • Guernica and Total War (Profile Books, 2007)
  • Thing of Reason (Black Suede Boot Press, 1974)
  • Endless Demands (Holophrase, 1983)
  • No Dice (Poetical Histories, 1988)
  • Roughly Speaking (Cambridge, 1990)
  • Tense Fodder (Equipage, 1993)
  • Much More Pronounced (Equipage, 1999)
  • Time to Get Here: Selected Poems 1969–2002 (Salt, 2003)
  • The Glass Bell (Barque Press, 2009)
  • Time Dust (Equipage, 2015)
  • Still Life (Oystercatcher, 2015)
  • Bound To Be (Equipage, 2017)
  • Shell Vestige Disputed (Broken Sleep Books, 2023)
  • Collected Poems 1975-2023 (Broken Sleep Books, 2024)

Translations by Author

  • Marcel Proust, In Search of Lost Time, Vol. 6: Finding Time Again (Penguin, 2003)
  • Charles Fourier, The Theory of the Four Movements (Cambridge University Press, 1996)
  • Alain Touraine et al., The Workers' Movement (Cambridge University Press, 1987)

Trivia

  • Husband of writer Jenny Diski; won Forward Prize for elegy to her
  • Married writer Olivia Laing in 2017
  • Editor of Nemo's Almanac, described as 'the world's hardest book quiz'