John Glenday
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Writer. Poetry.
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Everything I have not written
Lesley Harrison on the silent poem behind the poem
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North Sea Poetry Weekend Bulletin - ballads, birds, new classes
A Weekend Update from North Sea Poets - 1st November 2025
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9 days ago
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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.
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Anthropocene ā New Poetic Performances - 2025 Push The Boat Out Festival
https://pushtheboatout.org/events/anthropocene-new-poetic-performances/
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Kathleen Jamie
11 days ago
A one-day North Sea Poets workshop with myself, if you fancy it? Details at
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Forward prize names poets Vidyan Ravinthiran and Karen Solie its first joint winners
Judge of prestigious award says two best collection winners āaddress the urgent challenges of our timeā
https://www.theguardian.com/books/2025/oct/26/forward-prize-names-poets-vidyan-ravinthiran-and-karen-solie-its-first-joint-winners#:~:text=The%20Canadian%20poet%20Solie%20shared,Southbank%20Centre%20on%20Sunday%20evening
14 days ago
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The carefully trodden language of grief - Goose to Donkey from Les Murray āTranslations from the Natural Worldā.
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Cambridge Writing Centre šļø
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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.
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The International Book & Pamphlet Competition - The Poetry Business
The 2026 International Book & Pamphlet Competition is open from 1st OCTOBER 2025 The UKās most prestigious collection competition ā [ā¦]
https://poetrybusiness.co.uk/competitions/the-international-book-pamphlet-competition/
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North Sea Line Caught, #2: āKissing on the Radioā
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North Sea Line Caught, #2: āKissing on the Radioā
Don Paterson on a short history of fluff
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17 days ago
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London Review of Books
22 days ago
āMy Leddy, gaird o ivry unco airt! Yeāve gaithered the airts, yeāve held them in yir haun, Yeāve braided the airts, smooricht thaim tae yir breist.ā From Robert Crawfordās Scots version of āEnheduannaās Songā, a Sumerian hymn:
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Robert Crawford Ā· Poem: āEnheduannaās Songā
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North Sea Poetry Weekend Bulletin
A Weekend Update from North Sea Poets - 18th October 2025
https://open.substack.com/pub/northseapoets/p/north-sea-poetry-weekend-bulletin-5c6?r=tph37&utm_medium=ios
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āKwinkā
A new essay by Lesley Harrison
https://open.substack.com/pub/northseapoets/p/kwink?r=tph37
24 days ago
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A frog poem from Reflector - my limited edition art book collaboration with
#Dundee
artist Stephen French:
stephenfrench.art
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On What The Angel of History Might See
Niall Campbell writes a first part on private histories
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about 1 month ago
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William Bonar Poetry Prize
about 1 month ago
Submissions opened on Thursday 2 October (National Poetry Day) for the 2025
#williambonarpoetryprize
! Red Squirrel Press in partnership with St Mungoās Mirrorball. The deadline is 31 December 2025. Please see below for full detailsĀ andĀ rules.
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Creative Writing for Creative Living with John Glenday
An online guide to facilitating creative writing workshops for health and wellbeing with poet John Glenday
https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/creative-writing-for-creative-living-with-john-glenday-tickets-1776233535319?aff=oddtdtcreator
about 1 month ago
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Tony Harrison's 'Study'
Don Paterson on the best room
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about 1 month ago
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Any blue sky in Bluesky tonight? Aurora likely.
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North Sea Line Caught #1
An occasional series, featuring new work from North Sea Poets
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about 1 month ago
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Sonnets and waxings and Glück, Howe and Celtic
these are a few of our favourite links
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about 2 months ago
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On Francesca Woodman, Plath and Spirit Photography
Don Paterson on the art of the self-timer
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about 2 months ago
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2026 Creative Writing Retreats at Galloway House Estate
Announcing our 2026 Writing Retreats at Galloway House Estate on the south west coast of Scotland, with award-winning tutors for both prose and poetry!
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2 months ago
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Looking forward to celebrating the launch of Sue Burgeās latest collection:
2 months ago
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Writing the Last Word
Lesley Harrison on the poetry of Inger Christensen
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2 months ago
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Midsummer, Tobago
Visit the post for more.
https://poemsontheunderground.org/midsummer-tobago
3 months ago
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On the World That Calls Back
Niall Campbell on Jack Gilbert and the worldās response
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3 months ago
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4 months ago
This, from
welovestornaway.com
is my favourite news item about the Forward Prizes so far...
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Fanny Howe - 1940 - 2025 from Selected Poems , University of California Press 2000
3 months ago
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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
3 months ago
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Where have all the Giant Tortoises gone?
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Where Have All the Great Poets Gone?
Kathleen Jamie on the Giant Tortoises
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3 months ago
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North Sea Poets
3 months ago
Tickets are going fast for our autumn course on Saturdays š '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
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Do Birds Sing? Lesley Harrisonās essay certainly does:
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PN Review Print and Online Poetry Magazine - Do Birds Sing? - Lesley Harrison - PN Review 284
One of the outstanding poetry journals of our time.
https://www.pnreview.co.uk/archive/do-birds-sing/11958
3 months ago
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Carole Bruce
4 months ago
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.
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When they arrest poets as terrorists itās time to start worrying. Alice Oswald arrested for SUPPORTing PALESTINE ACTION
3 months ago
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Upgrade today to Microsoft Whitewash:
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https://blogs.microsoft
3 months ago
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Will Buckingham | ē½åæ äæ®
3 months ago
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.
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GlacierāAn Icebound View of the Firth of Forth Garry MacKenzie
Imagine when the Firth of Forthāthe estuary at the heart of Scotlandāis all glacier, the country around it frozen solid. Imagine, as the ice melts,...
https://books.windandbones.com/product/glacier
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Our
#NorthSeaPoets
Autumn course proved so popular itās already sold out, so weāre running it again on the Saturdays:
#Poetry
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North Sea Poets Autumn Course - 'Writing With ...' (Saturdays) | North Sea Poets
A series of seven classes, each one delivered weekly by a different member of North Sea Poets, with a Q&A at the end of each session.
https://www.northseapoets.com/events/north-sea-poets-autumn-course-writing-with-saturdays
3 months ago
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#Scotland
always knows how to welcome distinguished visitors. The Tay Estuary this afternoon.
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What Did You See?
Karen Solie remembers Fanny Howe
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4 months ago
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North Sea Poets
4 months ago
Down to the last few tickets for the next
#NorthSeaPoets
course š '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
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Wind&Bones Books
4 months ago
GlacierāAn Icebound View of the Firth of Forth Garry MacKenzie Coming soon from Wind&Bones Books...
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#indiepress
#poetry
#Scotland
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The Irish Pages Press
4 months ago
āIf we donāt explore the past, then how can we understand the journey that has brought us to where we are? This too ā tracing the route ā is a form of recovery.ā ~ James Robertson (2025)
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Fare Forward, Voyagersā¦
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Forward Prizes for Poetry - Forward Arts Foundation
The Forward Prizes for Poetry are the most influential awards for new poetry in the UK and Ireland. Check out the winners of previous years.
https://forwardartsfoundation.org/forward-prizes-for-poetry/
4 months ago
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From London Review of Books for 24/7/24 - just what I needed in these times:
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Association for Scottish Literature
4 months ago
āI was born in 1962. Thereās been an environmental crisis for as long as Iāve lived. To step outside that constant culpability was one of the many delights of RING OF BRIGHT WATER.ā āKathleen Jamie in the
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on Gavin Maxwell (1914ā1969) ā born
#OTD
, 15 July 1/2
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Kathleen Jamie Ā· Diary: In the West Highlands
https://www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v33/n14/kathleen-jamie/diary
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Jonathan Gibbs
4 months ago
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.
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4 months ago
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!
add a skeleton here at some point
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Anna Saunders- from Eurydice in the Ruined House, Indigo Dreams Publishing 2025.
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4 months ago
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Iām really looking forward to running this generative workshop next Tuesday evening. Weāll 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.
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A Weather Eye with John Glenday | North Sea Poets
In this immersive 90-minute workshop we'll use examples, discussions and quick-fire exercises to create new work, focussing on the inner weather of the poem.
https://www.northseapoets.com/events/a-weather-eye-with-john-glenday-2
4 months ago
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4 months ago
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
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Poetry Blog Digest 2025, Week 27
A personal selection of posts from the Poetry Blogging Network and beyond.
https://www.vianegativa.us/2025/07/poetry-blog-digest-2025-week-27/
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