Ian Kenneth Patterson (born 31 August 1948) is a British poet, translator and academic.
[1] Ian Patterson was educated at Pembroke College, Cambridge, where he graduated with a BA degree in English in 1969.
He returned to academia in the 1990s to write a PhD, and in 1995 was awarded a Junior Research Fellowship at King's College, Cambridge.
[2] In 2017 Ian Patterson won the Forward Prize for best single poem for "The Plenty of Nothing", an elegy to his wife, Jenny Diski.
He is a regular contributor to the London Review of Books, writing on subjects as diverse as Jilly Cooper,[6] libraries and Ann Quin.