Professor Don Paterson, of the
School of English, will deliver his Inaugural Lecture, “I know what I have
given you; I do not know what you have received”: Poetry, Paranoia
and Errors in Transmission, in the Buchanan Lecture Theatre on Wednesday, 9 May 2012 at 5.15 p.m. All are welcome.
Don has published five collections of poetry, two books of aphorism, a
number of edited anthologies, and a commentary on Shakespeare’s
Sonnets. He is currently working on a new collection of poetry, a lengthy technical manual on
ars poetica, and a prose book about music.