Loads of great events on at @ptbopoetry.bsky.social in Edinburgh this November, including poet Garry MacKenzie and film-maker Sam Firth's poetry-film, one of three poetry-led performance commissions in association with the National Theatre of Scotland. pushtheboatout.org/events/anthr...

A one-day North Sea Poets workshop with myself, if you fancy it? Details at www.northseapoets.com/studios1dayw...

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The carefully trodden language of grief - Goose to Donkey from Les Murray ‘Translations from the Natural World’.

Kim Moore is judging this year's Poetry Business International Book & Pamphlet Competition. Submit 20 pages of poetry by 2nd November -- two winning entries will be selected for publication by Smith|Doorstop Books. poetrybusiness.co.uk/competitions...

North Sea Line Caught, #2: ‘Kissing on the Radio’ open.substack.com/pub/northsea...

‘My Leddy, gaird o ivry unco airt! Ye’ve gaithered the airts, ye’ve held them in yir haun, Ye’ve braided the airts, smooricht thaim tae yir breist.’ From Robert Crawford’s Scots version of ‘Enheduanna’s Song’, a Sumerian hymn: www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v4...

A frog poem from Reflector - my limited edition art book collaboration with #Dundee artist Stephen French: stephenfrench.art

Submissions opened on Thursday 2 October (National Poetry Day) for the 2025 #williambonarpoetryprize! Red Squirrel Press in partnership with St Mungo’s Mirrorball. The deadline is 31 December 2025. Please see below for full details and rules.

Any blue sky in Bluesky tonight? Aurora likely.

Looking forward to celebrating the launch of Sue Burge’s latest collection:

This, from welovestornaway.com is my favourite news item about the Forward Prizes so far... @niallpoetry.bsky.social

Fanny Howe - 1940 - 2025 from Selected Poems , University of California Press 2000

When the Grass Dances - A perfect blend of words and photographs from Valerie Gillies & Rebecca Marr. Available now from Luath Press: @luathpress.bsky.social #Poetry #Photography

Where have all the Giant Tortoises gone? open.substack.com/pub/northsea...

Tickets are going fast for our autumn course on Saturdays 🍂 'Writing With ...' is a series of seven classes, delivered weekly by the #NorthSeaPoets. The course will cover everything from landscapes to ghosts, from Heaney to Plath. Get all the details at northseapoets.com 🌊 #PoetrySky

Do Birds Sing? Lesley Harrison’s essay certainly does: @pnreview.bsky.social www.pnreview.co.uk/archive/do-b...

This arrived today. Poems by Palestinians. A publishing initiative by Alice Oswald, Robert Macfarlane, Zaffar Kunial and Max Porter. (My favourite poets and writers) A poem by 17 year old Saleh in Gaza.

When they arrest poets as terrorists it’s time to start worrying. Alice Oswald arrested for SUPPORTing PALESTINE ACTION

Upgrade today to Microsoft Whitewash: blogs.microsoft.com/on-the-issue...

Feeling incredibly proud to be publishing this wonderful essay-poem by Garry MacKenzie, over at @windandbones.com. I'm back in Scotland on Thursday, and will be thinking of it as we speed over the Firth of Forth from Edinburgh towards Dundee. books.windandbones.com/product/glac...

Our #NorthSeaPoets Autumn course proved so popular it’s already sold out, so we’re running it again on the Saturdays: #Poetry www.northseapoets.com/events/north...

#Scotland always knows how to welcome distinguished visitors. The Tay Estuary this afternoon.

Down to the last few tickets for the next #NorthSeaPoets course 🍂 'Writing With ...' will cover everything from landscapes to ghosts, from Heaney to Plath and is suitable for both experienced and emerging writers. Get all the details: buff.ly/lJv4Fbp #PoetrySky #PoetryWorkshop

Glacier—An Icebound View of the Firth of Forth Garry MacKenzie Coming soon from Wind&Bones Books... books.windandbones.com/product/glac... #indiepress #poetry #Scotland

“If we don’t explore the past, then how can we understand the journey that has brought us to where we are? This too – tracing the route – is a form of recovery.” ~ James Robertson (2025) irishpages.org/product/vol-... @asls.org.uk @iassl.bsky.social @scottishpen.bsky.social

Fare Forward, Voyagers… forwardartsfoundation.org/forward-priz...

From London Review of Books for 24/7/24 - just what I needed in these times:

“I was born in 1962. There’s been an environmental crisis for as long as I’ve lived. To step outside that constant culpability was one of the many delights of RING OF BRIGHT WATER.” —Kathleen Jamie in the @lrb.co.uk on Gavin Maxwell (1914–1969) – born #OTD, 15 July 1/2 www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v3...

2025 Reading 40: The Little Review No. 1, ed. Tristram Fane Saunders. I picked this up for a fiver from by the till at my local bookstore. I'll always give a new literary journal a go. This one was, frankly, a delight. It's a poetry journal, but promiscuous in its interests both in form and content.

A great piece on possibly my favourite writer. Good critical writing about poetry is increasingly rare. I'm biased perhaps, because I was born and grew up by the North Sea, but this collective just keeps putting out great content. I wish I was part of it!

Anna Saunders- from Eurydice in the Ruined House, Indigo Dreams Publishing 2025. @annasaund.bsky.social @indigodreamspub.bsky.social

I’m really looking forward to running this generative workshop next Tuesday evening. We’ll be studying the weather through the barometer of poetry and drafting inspired, new work come rain, come shine. Still a couple of places left. Dress appropriately. www.northseapoets.com/events/a-wea...

Wind phones, the dark mist of America & more w/ @matthewepaul.bsky.social @wendypratt.bsky.social @johnglenday.bsky.social @suefinch.bsky.social @beckyltuch.bsky.social @lesleymwheeler.bsky.social @robin-gow-poet.bsky.social @thepoetslizard.bsky.social 3/3 www.vianegativa.us/2025/07/poet...