Patrick Errington

Patrick James Errington (born 1989) is a Canadian-Scottish poet, translator, and researcher. He is currently a Lecturer and UKRI Future Leaders Fellow at the University of Edinburgh.^[1]

Errington received his BA in English Literature from the University of Alberta, where he studied with Nobel laureate Derek Walcott.^[2] He completed his MFA in Creative Writing (Poetry) and Literary Translation from Columbia University in 2015 and his PhD in Literary Theory from the University of St Andrews.^[3]

Errington is the author of the poetry collection, the swailing, published by McGill-Queens University Press in 2023,^[4] which won the John Pollard Foundation International Poetry Prize from Trinity College Dublin^[5] and was shortlisted for Poetry Book of the Year in the Scottish National Book Awards.^[6] His poems have received awards including the RBC Bronwen Wallace Award from the Writers' Trust of Canada,^[7] the Callan Gordon Award from the Scottish Book Trust,^[8] among others. His French co-translation of English musician PJ Harvey's first poetry book The Hollow of the Hand (French, Au creux de la main) was published in 2017.^[3]

Errington's research is described as 'transdisciplinary', spanning fields such as literary theory, creative writing, cognitive psychology, education, and neuroaesthetics.^[9] In 2025, he was awarded a Future Leaders Fellowship from UK Research and Innovation.^[10]

• the swailing. McGill-Queens University Press, 2023. ISBN 978-0-2280-1675-5
• Glean. Oxford Brookes University Press, 2018. ISBN 978-1-9997412-2-8

• Au creux de la main. L'Age d'Homme, 2017. ISBN 978-2-8251-4651-4