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Writing With: Beasts, Work, Windows, Mirrors, Music, Jack Gilbert and Mis-placed things, our North Sea Poets 2026 spring course is now available. For all details, and to book, please click below. www.northseapoets.com/courses

It's midwinter, but here is John Glenday with some wonderful light...

essay on Heaney over at the northseapoets substack … open.substack.com/pub/northsea...

This is a lovely thing.

New guest post 📰 Glacier – Garry MacKenzie writes on his new long poem Read the full post: buff.ly/VdmjNVJ #NorthSeaPoets #PoetrySky

New post 📰 Everything I have not written Lesley Harrison on the silent poem behind the poem Read the full post: buff.ly/fNdsENG #NorthSeaPoets #PoetrySky

North Sea Poetry Weekend Bulletin - ballads, birds, new classes open.substack.com/pub/northsea...

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

just posted some fluff on fluff, deadlines and how to kiss on the radio open.substack.com/pub/northsea...

New from @niallpoetry.bsky.social on #Substack 📰 On the World That Calls Back – Niall Campbell on Jack Gilbert and the world's response Read the full post: buff.ly/SIc5VAk #NorthSeaPoets #PoetrySky

Where Have All the Great Poets Gone? My North Sea Poets substack... 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

Arresting the poets are we? Not a good look.

Applications are still open for Studio 2 with Niall Campbell @niallpoetry.bsky.social ✍️ Get all the details: buff.ly/TBILVRi Only eight places available! #NorthSeaPoets #PoetryWorkshops #PoetrySky

Congratulations to all five finalists!

If you missed out we're running the same course, this time on Saturdays.

Just posted a thing on misreadings, facepalms, iron, milk and spiders, and my most brutal encounter with Robert Frost yet … open.substack.com/pub/northsea...

Yon tree. You know the one.

Love this. Longbarrow Press, keeping it real. Inventory open.substack.com/pub/longbarr...

Landscape. Death. Bishop. Ghosts. Plath. Artists. Heaney: “Writing With” begins in September. Details at www.northseapoets.com/events/north...

New guest post from poet, editor and critic Ben Wilkinson 📰 Winners and Losers: The Death of the Poetry Critic – Ben Wilkinson on the current state of reviewing culture Read the full post here: buff.ly/JIQIGvf #NorthSeaPoets #PoetrySky #PoetryCommunity

Poetry. Community. Learning from each other (and two North Sea Poet tutors). Poetry Studios start this September. Applications open now.

Stone speaks in poetry. This was such a fun day, and quite the honour. The sun shone, tourist buses passed, and the Canongate Wall, which wreathes the Scottish Parliament with lines of poetry, now has three new plaques, craved by Gillian Forbes. Jackie Kay, Liz Lochead and me - sisters in verse.

Cheese Dreams: Don Paterson writing about what he knows, the poetry anthology.

On Not Writing - my new substack for North Sea Poets. Now, back to my dwam* Dwam: Scots for daydream or waking trance. open.substack.com/pub/northsea...

Here's what's coming up on northseapoets.com 🌊 Get all the details and book tickets at the link! #NorthSeaPoets #PoetrySky #PoetryWorkshops

Last chance to get a ticket for tonight's Speaking To, Speaking As with @kathleenjamie.bsky.social! We'll explore recent eco-poetry, and ask how poets can pay radical attention to non-humans – or even speak on their behalf. buff.ly/4rgpAjm #NorthSeaPoets #PoetrySky #EcoPoetry #KathleenJamie

Thursday evening!

Out now - a special Irish Pages on Scotland. Why Irish? Why have we no such journal of our own? 10 years since the referendum, we take stock. Cultural memory and (thanks be) new poets. irishpages.org/product/vol-...

substack.com/@northseapoe... What @northseapoets.bsky.social are reading right now

Poets, what are we for, n times of eco-crisis? Can we imagine and advocate for the non-human? -,Reading and writing sessions with myself at North Sea Poets.

Two Dances – An Intro to Metre with @dharmabam.bsky.social is coming up on 2nd May! Last chance to book tickets for this webinar on the two basic templates of metre. Learn how you can make your poetry more expressive, rhythmic and memorable. 🎟️ buff.ly/8kKo13W #NorthSeaPoets #PoetrySky

Are you a poet interested in getting published? Don't miss this event with @niallpoetry.bsky.social Getting Ready for Publication: Getting the Pamphlet Right 📆 9th May ⏰ 11am-12:30pm 🎟️ £30/£20 Book your place: buff.ly/R8AhrJC #NorthSeaPoets #PoetryWorkshop #PoetrySky

New issue of the North Sea Poetry Weekend Bulletin 📰 Featuring this week's new writing, upcoming courses & events, and more on northseapoets.com 🌊 Read the post here: buff.ly/8JkMkAO #NorthSeaPoets #PoetryCommunity #PoetrySky

The latest Paperboats zine!

New post on #Substack 📰 A Cloud of Witnesses – Karen Solie encounters C.D. Wright among the beeches #NorthSeaPoets #PoetryCommunity #PoetrySky

To celebrate World Heritage Day, and dedicated to Toby Carvery, Enfield, a twig from Katharine Towers collection ‘Oak’.

Do you secretly imbibe dictionaries?

Thank you @dgplacenames.bsky.social I will think on...

On this course I'll be talking about the joys of re-drafting and bringing your poem into being. But now, with generative AI, we might be wise to leave proof of human authenticity and provenance. Yup, all that back-of-the-envelope scribbling is suddenly important.

New post on #Substack from @dharmabam.bsky.social Will AI Destroy Literature or Save It? Part I – Don Paterson contemplates the Terminator in the Augean stables #NorthSeaPoets #PoetryCommunity #AI

New post on #Substack from @johnglenday.bsky.social Robert Frost's Eyebrows – John Glenday on words, syllables and cadence. #NorthSeaPoets #PoetryCommunity

New post on #Substack! Rabelais, W.S. Graham and the Northeast Passage – Lesley Harrison in Malcolm Mooney's Land. Read the full piece on Substack: buff.ly/0zvASHw #NorthSeaPoets #PoetryCommunity

substack.com/@northseapoe... I wrote about a little brush with generative AI. NorthSeaPoets Substack.

Looking forward to this new venture. Join us!