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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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.