TS Eliot prize for poetry 2003
Eliot prize brings Scottish poet's award earnings up to £15,000
The Scottish poet and musician Don Paterson last night brought his winnings from his art to £15,000 in a mere 13 days when he took the TS Eliot prize for poetry.
Is there still life on Mars?
Past master Paterson in poetry prize shortlist
This year's TS Eliot prize shortlist features collections from Lavinia Greenlaw, Ian Duhig and Don Paterson, who won the prize in 1997 with God's Gift to Women.
From rune to revelation
Ian Duhig's third collection, The Lammas Hireling, shows him shedding the arcane references of his earlier work to speak with a new directness, says CL Dallat
People's poet
For years he worked with down-and-outs, drug addicts and burglars. Now Ian Duhig has been shortlisted for one of Britain's most prestigious poetry prizes. Martin Wainwright meets him.
A natural way with an enigma
Ian Sansom admires the modesty of Bernard O'Donoghue's fourth collection, Outliving
The sugared pill
Billy Collins is very popular in America but his new collection, Nine Horses, is a bit too cosy for Jeremy Noel Tod
Zoom lens
Lavinia Greenlaw is enchanted by the subtlety of Jamie McKendrick's new work, Ink Stone