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Poetry Club: Paul Muldoon & Special Guests – The Coronet Theatre The Sonnet – A celebration, Featuring Alice Oswald and Don Paterson Join Pulitzer Prize-winning poet Paul Muldoon, as well as special guests Alice Oswald...

Join Pulitzer Prize-winning poet Paul Muldoon, as well as special guests Alice Oswald and Don Paterson, as they read from a new anthology celebrating the sonnet. Tickets are available now.

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Thank you @andrewjamesneilson.bsky.social Really appreciate your kind words & the share!

Each Nick and Scratch by Heart: Elizabeth Bishop’s Island Industries Lisa Brockwell on the perversity of nostalgia

My new piece on Bishop, her Crusoe poem & the perversity of nostalgia. Delighted to be teaching Bishop on our autumn @northseapoets.bsky.social course.

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Lisa Brockwell on Substack Don Paterson on the joy & the horror of poetry anthologies: “Anthologies liberate the reader….(allowing)…a sense of serendipitous discovery, of personal encounter, with the usual intermediaries remov...

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What Are We, And Where Are We Going? Don Paterson is a celebrated Scottish poet, writer and musician. The essay below comes from a new anthology of Scottish writers called Irish Pages: Scotland, and is reproduced with his permission. …

I don’t write much on this subject and don’t intend to start, but some of you may know that - while my politics are small ‘s’, small ‘c’ and raging centrist - I’m a longstanding supporter of Scottish independence. I believe Scotland is a country 1/4

@dharmabam.bsky.social with a new class on a radically different approach to metaphor. These tickets will go fast.

THE FOG HOUSE Lesley Harrison on foggy retreats and making a home in the shadows

“Moments of certainty…but these come adrift or are eroded as the haar slips in. The poem ends with his neighbour still searching the sea for her missing husband. Fog – symbol of loss or removal, of silence and hiatus“
Lesley Harrison @northseapoets.bsky.social
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Don’t miss out! Couple of tickets left for this workshop with the brilliant @kathleenjamie.bsky.social

What We're Reading This Week On this month's favourite books

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What @northseapoets.bsky.social are reading right now

Two Dances – An Intro to Metre with Don Paterson | North Sea Poets A two-hour webinar showing how both the four-stress line and iambic pentameter can work as the engine of our poetry, and strengthen the expressivity, rhythm and memorability of the poetic line.

Hi folks - still tripping over your own feet? last chance to book in for what I hope will be a fun one on friday - clocks, parrots, chet baker and more alternate stress than you can shake a stick at

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Don’t miss out on the first webinar from @dharmabam.bsky.social on the @northseapoets.bsky.social platform. This Friday at an Australia-friendly time. Kilt & beard not included.

A Cloud of Witnesses Karen Solie encounters C.D. Wright among the beeches

“To be rooted is perhaps the most important and least recognised need of the human soul.” Simone Weil quoted in a beautiful piece by Karen Solie on the @northseapoets.bsky.social substack about beech trees, CD Wright & bearing witness.

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How to Furnish the Cave of Making with Don Paterson | North Sea Poets Don Paterson will run a 2-hour webinar on all the secret tools, resources and software that poets can draw on, whether we're stuck for an idea, a word or a line.

June’s a way off, but if you want to get in there early – I’ve posted a class at northseapoets I thought might be fun. Basically a whistlestop tour of some of my favourite ‘stuck poet’ resources
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Brilliant piece by Don Paterson @North Sea Poets on AI, the soul and the big (and, frankly, long overdue) reset coming for our art form.

Poetry round-up: Colin Bramwell | Charles Lang | Andrés Ordorica | Erica McAlpine Stuart Kelly reviews four recent poetry releases, starting with Colin Bramwell’s “trans-culturations” of the work of Fernando Pessoa

‘Fower Pessoas is a revelation, and shows just how strong Scots poetry can be. … What is exceptional is that Bramwell fashions distinct Scots for Pessoa’s different heteronyms. The chutzpah is amazing.’

Stuart Kelly on brambrella.bsky.social, for @scotsman.com: www.scotsman.com/arts-and-cul...

if anyone in edinburgh fancies some JAZZ I’m playing with Graeme Stephen at the Scottish Arts Club this friday. apparently having just been informed of the death of a close relative

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North Sea Poetry Weekly Bulletin North Sea Poetry Weekly Bulletin

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Fabulous new poem from @andrewjamesneilson.bsky.social in the latest @poetrylondon.bsky.social. Been thinking about it all morning

So much to love in this new @poetrylondon.bsky.social

@aiannucci.bsky.social & @helenlewis.bsky.social Don Paterson on poetry & public health messaging might be of interest re: Strong Message Here

I wrote this in July 2016
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The Poem as Public Health Message: on Mnemonics, Kelpies and the Banned Word List Don Paterson’s alter ego sounds off on bad acronyms

Just posted a not *entirely serious thing on poetry and public health messaging over at the northseapoets substack

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The Book All Poets Should Read (but almost none have) Lisa Brockwell on a book that changes how we think of poetry

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Delighted to be teaching a workshop on this astonishing book with North Sea Poets. Northseapoets.com

East African Housekeepers Face Rape, Assault and Death in Saudi Arabia East African leaders and Saudi royals are among those profiting off a lucrative, deadly trade in domestic workers.

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Important investigation from the New York Times. The plight of foreign workers in Saudi, UAE & Qatar is a disgrace.

Print for a remote cottage to the left in a hilly landscape at dusk with a brooding cloudy bluish sky

Contemorary UK printmaker Sarah Morgan, 'Follow the path' #WomensArt

Lisa Brockwell on Substack Lovely piece on fatherhood and why excellence is the only thing worth pursuing in art. From Niall Campbell on the North Sea Poets platform.

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‘A machine-shaped hand’: Read a story from OpenAI’s new creative writing model Posting the piece online, OpenAI’s Sam Altman said this is the first time he has been “really struck” by AI writing

we’re going to have to talk sensibly and honestly about the ramifications of this very soon. for literature, for publishing, for the assessment of talent, for the creative writing degree. Anyway - first time I’ve read any AI fiction or poetry and thought: Oh.

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Head on over to the North Sea Poets on Substack & our online courses at our website too www.northseapoets.com

Andrew Sullivan in great form on Substack.