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Poet collects second award of 2004.(Don Paterson wins the T.S. Eliot Prize for Poetry)(Brief Article)

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Whitbread poetry winner Don Paterson has scooped another lucrative poetry prize, for his collection 'Landing Light'.

The Scottish poet collected the GBP5,000 TS Eliot Prize for Poetry, to add to the GBP10,000 he collected earlier in January 2004 from Whitbread, which could increase by another GBP25,000, if he wins the overall Whitbread prize later in 2004.

Chairman of the Eliot judges, Hungarian poet and translator George Szirtes, praised the "sense of authority" in 'Landing Light' and called Paterson "a poet going from ...

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