Since 2000, Don Paterson has done much of his writing directly onto his Apple Mac (and subsequent models), and his digital archive appears to contain most of his work – in diverse fields - back to that point. The development of the poems are charted through multiple drafts as he hones a work down to the essence. The prose, some of which seems to form the raw material for his collections of aphorism, is occasionally written at such speed that there is no attempt to correct typos or even spell properly – his hands clearly rush to keep pace with his brain. There is also much seemingly unpublished material on the hard drive. Beyond the extensive quantities of creative writing, the digital archive includes e-mail correspondence with, and some work by, other poets, much of it evidently relating to Paterson’s work as Picador’s poetry editor. There are many files of his writing on the ‘Ars Poetica’ theme, presumably in connection to his teaching of creative writing at St Andrews University. The collection also includes a number of folders containing music: recordings of work with Don Paterson ‘Euro-jazz inflected with Celtic folk’ band Lammas, as well as more recent electronic compositions.