James Conor Patterson
![Section of a book cover. It's mostly black, with silver grey lines that could be woodcuts. It shows in roughly square boxes, a tree, a tower, a bridge, some leaves and a curly vertical squiggle. Nope, I don't know either.](https://thefridaypoem.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/02/Bandit-Country-by-James-Conor-Patterson-320x225.jpg)
An outstretched imitation of the original
Jeremy Wikeley reviews bandit country by James Conor Patterson (Picador, 2022)
![James Conor Patterson with short hair and a green crew neck jumper](https://thefridaypoem.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/11/JC-Patterson-headshot-320x225.jpg)
We need to pay attention to those who are calling it like they see it
In Conversation: The Friday Poem talks to James Conor Patterson about the four-way auction over his debut collection with Picador, the real Newry and why poetry is capturing the zeitgeist