@dharmabam.bsky.social
Scottish poet and musician
Lesley Harrison on excellent form, writing about bird-names, birdsong and poetry over at the northseapoets place:
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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 — 👍 12 🔁 4 💬 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 — 👍 84 🔁 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.
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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 — 👍 10 🔁 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
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Niall C on winkles, animism, and a frequent topic of conversation round here – Jack Gilbert.
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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.
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“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
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Just posted a thing on misreadings, facepalms, iron, milk and spiders, and my most brutal encounter with Robert Frost yet …
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Wonderful piece by Karen Solie on Fanny Howe, over at the northseapoets place …
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There’s still time to join me in some rather strange poetic territory this saturday morning …
www.northseapoets.com/events/the-r...
There’s still time to join me in some rather strange poetic territory this saturday morning …
www.northseapoets.com/events/the-r...
escape the dreadful heat & embrace your inner sleet - only a couple of places left on John Glenday’s guide to poetic weather next week: www.northseapoets.com/events/a-wea...
12.07.2025 08:32 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
Lisa Brockwell on Elizabeth Bishop, Robinson Crusoe and the perversity of nostalgia, over at the northseapoets place …
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Glenday on paying attention and reading Nick Laird’s Up Late - over at the northseapoets place …
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A frisky otter
in the Donmouth getting there
ahead of itself
shines bright and brilliant as the
shade of Diogo Jota.
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Niall C at the northseapoets place today on touch, grit and island funerals …
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Is it practically impossible to be an honest poet-critic today?
A new essay of mine on the decline of reviewing culture, the rise of the poetry prizes, artistic standards and integrity.
Over at the @northseapoets.bsky.social Substack:
northseapoets.substack.com/p/winners-an...
Landscape. Death. Bishop. Ghosts. Plath. Artists. Heaney: “Writing With” begins in September. Details at www.northseapoets.com/events/north...
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