Patterson, James Conor

Patterson, James (c) Aimée Walsh

James Conor Patterson, born in Coventry in 1989, is a Northern Irish poet, essayist, and photographer. His first book of poetry “bandit country” (Picador 2022), won the Eric Gregory Award and has been nominated for the TS Eliot Prize 2022. In 2021 he edited an anthology entitled “The New Frontier: Reflections from the Irish Border” (New Island Books).

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