THE READING
Friday 5th March 2004, 8-10pm (doors open 7.30pm) Bar provided Adult £10, OAP/Cons £7.50, Students £5 Sallis Benney Theatre, University of Brighton, Grand Parade

Don Paterson was born in Dundee, Scotland in 1963. His poetry collections are Nil Nil, God's Gift to Women, The Eyes (all Faber & Faber) and The White Lie - New and Selected Poems (Graywolf) and, most recently, Landing Light (Faber 2003). He has also edited 101 Sonnets (Faber), a selected Robert Burns (Faber), and Last Words (with Jo Shapcott, Picador). He is the only poet to have won the T. S. Eliot Prize twice and has also received the Geoffrey Faber Memorial Award, a Forward Prize and three Scottish Arts Council Book Awards. He received a Creative Scotland Award in January 2002. He is currently Poetry Editor for Picador.

THE MASTERCLASS
The Poem and the Process - a symposium on the art of poetry Saturday 6th March 2004, 11am -1pm (doors open 10.30pm) Bar provided Adult £10, OAP/Cons £7.50, Students £5 Sallis Benney Theatre, University of Brighton, Grand Parade

Don will discuss the whole process of poetic composition, from inspiration and the various stages of the drafting process through to publication. The masterclass will focus especially on the importance of keeping a balance between intuition and technique, and the way in which the imagination can inform every step of the poem's composition.