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Callan Gordon Award - Poetry
Patrick James Errington is the author of two pamphlets of poetry, Glean (ignitionpress, 2018) and Field Studies (Clutag Press, 2019), and the French translator of PJ Harvey’s poetry collection, The Hollow of the Hand (Âge d’Homme, 2017). Individual poems have appeared in magazines and anthologies such as Best New Poets, Poets.org, Oxford Poets, Boston Review, The Iowa Review, Copper Nickel, The Cincinnati Review, and Best New British and Irish Poets, and have won or been commended for international prizes such as the Wigtown Poetry Competition, The London Magazine Poetry Competition, the Plough Prize, and The National Poetry Competition.
Originally from Alberta, Canada, Patrick holds an MFA from Columbia University and a PhD from the University of St Andrews. He has been living in Edinburgh for the past several years, where he is now a teaching and research fellow at the University of Edinburgh.
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To a Boyhood in Winter
What more
to say? What
of this snow
-rankled sky?
This low lie
of comfort some
pale lip on these
car-furrowed streets
these towns strewn
with what should be
called living but
isn’t. Even wolves
curl around their
rocking hearts
to sleep.
Eventually even
I will leave you
be as you ask.
"I’m immensely grateful to institutions like the Scottish Book Trust for supporting writers who make their homes here in Scotland. In times of walls and borders, it’s an enormous gift to be so warmly adopted by one’s country and an honour to be entrusted with helping to keep alive the memory of one of its poets – I hope I can live up to the task."
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