Patric Thomas Dickinson (26 December 1914 – 28 January 1994) was a British poet, translator from the Greek and Latin classics, and playwright.
His verse play Theseus and the Minotaur was broadcast by the BBC in July 1945 and published by Jonathan Cape the following year, along with a selection of his poems.
He wrote full-time from 1948 and edited (with Sheila Shannon) Personal Portraits, a series of short biographies published by Max Parrish Ltd. and Adprint, London.
Poetry books published include the following, all in the Phoenix Living Poets series: In February 1951 Lambert Williamson composed Living Silence, a choral and speaking choir morality for Liverpool Cathedral, setting a text by Dickinson.
Papers of Patric Dickinson are held at the Cadbury Research Library, University of Birmingham.