“When all this is over I mean / to travel north...” ~ ‘Lochan’, a beautiful #poem by Kathleen Jamie 🍃 Our #Scotland issue, co-edited by Kathleen, is available here: irishpages.org/product/vol-...

I like this tiny poem by Bill Manhire @pacificraft.bsky.social from his forthcoming Carcanet collection Lyrical Ballads.

April is the coolest month… Come along and join North Sea Poets for an evening of poetry and music:

A sky that tastes of rain that’s still to fall And then of rain that falls and tastes of sky… -Douglas Dunn ‘Tay Bridge’

Catch up on new writing from the #NorthSeaPoets 🌊 #amreading The Burns Identity - Don Paterson on the sudden disappearance of Robert Burns Subscribe at northseapoets.substack.com #PoetrySky

Suddenly realised my entire output could be divided into three categories:

Mineral by Kathleen Jamie @kathleenjamie.bsky.social @theobserveruk.bsky.social

Don’t mess with Angus Council.

Lesley Harrison on Stewart Sanderson’s ‘The Sleep Road’ substack.com/@northseapoe...

‘You Who Wronged’ by Czesław Milosz. For some reason or other this poem came to mind this morning. Written in a time of tyrants: #Poetry

A great start to the year - sign up to one of these workshops with the wonderful @rebeccasharp.bsky.social www.eventbrite.com/e/poetry-wor...

What really scares me about Reform is the way their heads are all mutually interchangeable.

This time of year the light seems keen to come north again. Tay Estuary at Buddon Ness. #Scotland

It’s true: even a sea worn brick was born in a dying star.

I was saddened to learn of the recent death of Richard Meier, winner of the inaugural Picador Poetry Prize in 2010. He was the author of three collections - his most recent ‘After the Miracle’ came out this year: happenstancepress.com/index.php/co... A fine man and a fine poet. #Poetry

Winter arrives beneath the cloak of the old blue-faced one. She moves over hills, through woods, in shadow. Tightening the land with frost. Shaping the weather. Come in out of the dark to where poems gather like embers. Listen and drink in the latest wave of @iambapoet.com. www.iambapoet.com/wave/24

The new North Sea Poets ‘Writing With …’ spring course has just gone live. We’re running it over seven weeks from Feb (twice, on Weds and Saturdays) – but both dates are half sold out already, so do get your skates on if you’d like to join us … www.northseapoets.com/courses

Auditions are over, poets have been informed of which wave they'll appear in throughout 2026/27, and Christmas is just around the corner. Time to say hello to the poets who'll make up wave twenty-four of @iambapoet.com – including special guest poet @johnglenday.bsky.social. iambapoet.com/wave/24

From Richard Meier’s third collection ‘After the Miracle’ - Happenstance Press 2025. #Poetry

💚 #moniackmhoronline where I'll share about #mentoring & #writing #poetry alongside brilliant @johnglenday.bsky.social my mentor / companion in readying 'The Bone Folder' for publication. Join us online 23.01.26. Pay-as-you-are-able booking bit.ly/4p2kpE9 @asls.org.uk @byleaveswelive.bsky.social

Nice one, Zadie Smith.

‘How does a painting haunt a poem?’ In the Scottish Society for Art History journal, Dr Catriona McAra discusses the ‘literary paintings’ of Alison Watt RSA.

Coming up on northseapoets.com 🌊 @dharmabam.bsky.social's winter webinars get started with the Joy of Scansion on Saturday 29th November. Get a 3-in-1 ticket for all three webinars for £90/£60 ⭐ #NorthSeaPoets #PoetrySky

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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