@dharmabam.bsky.social
Scottish poet and musician
Mounting a wee experiment here www.northseapoets.com/events/sunda... to see if we can recreate the legendary druidic magic of Stones Barn reading circle (still time to book here www.tickettailor.com/events/forgo... ) online. Three sessions starting in April. Sunday mornings, like church
31.01.2026 10:54 — 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
Wonderful piece by Karen Solie over at the north sea poets place on reverie, deadlines and escalators … open.substack.com/pub/northsea...
30.01.2026 12:15 — 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
It’s Burns night tonight … better check the haggis traps. I’ve slapped up something at the northseapoets place on Burns’ psychology and how ‘Tam O’Shanter’ is key to understanding his abandonment of poetry northseapoets.substack.com/p/the-burns-...
25.01.2026 09:11 — 👍 4 🔁 2 💬 0 📌 0
Our spring ‘writing with …’ course (this time: windows, beasts, Jack Gilbert, lost objects and much more - well three things more) has almost sold out: only a few tickets left for both weds and sat series ... www.northseapoets.com/courses
20.12.2025 17:44 — 👍 3 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 1
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
14.12.2025 09:34 — 👍 6 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0mostly things just turn into origami ngl
12.12.2025 11:26 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0
there’s still just time to join me for the last of the winter webinars tomorrow morning - on ‘symbol’. this may be my most ambitious powerpoint yet. some of these transitions are berserk
www.northseapoets.com/events-1
essay on Heaney over at the northseapoets substack … open.substack.com/pub/northsea...
28.11.2025 16:06 — 👍 16 🔁 5 💬 3 📌 2
Just a week left to sign up for a mini-series of webinars, starting with ‘The Joy of Scansion’ on the 29th Nov. In the following weeks I’ll be looking at ideas of poetic space and symbol ... Book individually or as a 3-in-1 at www.northseapoets.com/events-1
22.11.2025 08:49 — 👍 4 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
just posted some fluff on fluff, deadlines and how to kiss on the radio open.substack.com/pub/northsea...
24.10.2025 13:00 — 👍 7 🔁 2 💬 0 📌 1
Lesley Harrison on excellent form, writing about bird-names, birdsong and poetry over at the northseapoets place:
open.substack.com/pub/northsea...
A frog poem from Reflector - my limited edition art book collaboration with #Dundee artist Stephen French: stephenfrench.art
15.10.2025 08:19 — 👍 15 🔁 5 💬 0 📌 0
New mini-series of winter webinars, starting with ‘The Joy of Scansion’ on the 29th Nov. Come along and we’ll erm learn to demote that strong stress! etc. We’ll look at poetic space and symbol in the following weeks ... Book individually or as a 3-in-1 at www.northseapoets.com/events-1
11.10.2025 09:55 — 👍 10 🔁 3 💬 0 📌 0
Wrote something on Harrison & class. Also scansion. But remember the first rule of Foot Club. open.substack.com/pub/northsea...
03.10.2025 14:23 — 👍 11 🔁 5 💬 1 📌 0
As for many poets uneasy in their class consciousness, Tony Harrison’s brilliant controversial long poem V. (1985) blew me away when I first read it. But his short lyrics were sharp, wise, and deeply moving, too, cut from lived life. Saddened to hear the great man has passed. RIP.
27.09.2025 11:43 — 👍 85 🔁 19 💬 10 📌 0ach that’s great. the ‘gateway drug’ compliment is overused but in TH’s case that’s often been the reality of it
27.09.2025 11:05 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0indeed, Bill. wonderful.
27.09.2025 10:56 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0Very sad news about Tony H. Many poets of my own generation and class owe Tony almost everything. We might never have gone near poetry without him.
27.09.2025 10:32 — 👍 13 🔁 2 💬 2 📌 0
27.09.2025 10:01 — 👍 25 🔁 6 💬 2 📌 0
two more than I’ve ever managed, John …
24.09.2025 16:22 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0thanks Laura! too many slides as usual …
21.09.2025 16:32 — 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
me banging on about Woodman, Plath and spirit photography … open.substack.com/pub/northsea...
12.09.2025 14:27 — 👍 11 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 1
Great piece from Lesley Harrison on Inger Christensen and writing under the shadow of the Bomb … open.substack.com/pub/northsea...
29.08.2025 15:15 — 👍 3 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0Same, and totally agree
22.08.2025 09:09 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
Niall C on winkles, animism, and a frequent topic of conversation round here – Jack Gilbert.
substack.com/@northseapoe...
Repost, now with added silence. Occurred to me belatedly that some folk did not read ‘great’ as ‘elder statespersons of international standing’ as per the author’s intentions, but ‘dead good’. I think we can still all agree there are plenty of those.
open.substack.com/pub/northseapo…
“A poetry of self-conscious listening, of placing sound carefully. Like the plover, here I am, sitting on this stone, testing out sounds and patterns in order to record how it is to be here in this now.”
—Lesley Harrison, “Do Birds Sing?”, in @pnreview.bsky.social
www.pnreview.co.uk/archive/do-b...
