Lisa Brockwell (@lisabrockwell) — Bluesky Profile

6 days ago

At dawn, my feathers bright with blood
my head a fiery crown
I rose, and with a shriek took wing
above the blazing town

‘Phoenix’, a poem by Don Paterson.

www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v4...

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3 days ago

It’s been a year of @northseapoets.bsky.social already! Hope to see you at a webinar or workshop soon.

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1 month ago

Wonderful news. A fabulous collection and five terrific collections before this one too.

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3 months ago

Courses | North Sea Poets Want to learn creative poetry techniques from the best? Explore our upcoming courses.

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

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4 months ago

Thank you 🙏

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7 months ago

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.

thecoronettheatre.com/whats-on/poetry-club-paul-muldoon-and-special-guests/

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8 months ago

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

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8 months ago

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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9 months ago

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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9 months ago

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

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9 months ago

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

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9 months ago

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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10 months ago

Don’t miss out! Couple of tickets left for this workshop with the brilliant @kathleenjamie.bsky.social

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10 months ago

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

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What @northseapoets.bsky.social are reading right now

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10 months ago

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

www.northseapoets.com/events/two-d...

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10 months ago

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.

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10 months ago

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.

open.substack.com/pub/northsea...

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11 months ago

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
www.northseapoets.com/events/how-t...

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11 months ago

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.

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11 months ago

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...

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11 months ago

Don Paterson & Graeme Stephen - Modern Jazz Concert The first of the Spring Series of Scottish Arts Trust Concerts features Don Paterson & Graeme Stephen in Modern Jazz Guitar Concert

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

www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/don-paters...

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11 months ago