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Don Paterson @dharmabam.bsky.social · 5d

Wrote something on Harrison & class. Also scansion. But remember the first rule of Foot Club. open.substack.com/pub/northsea...

Tony Harrison's 'Study'

Don Paterson on the best room

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Ben Wilkinson @benwilko85.bsky.social · 11d

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.

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Don Paterson @dharmabam.bsky.social · 11d

ach that’s great. the ‘gateway drug’ compliment is overused but in TH’s case that’s often been the reality of it

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Don Paterson @dharmabam.bsky.social · 11d

indeed, Bill. wonderful.

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Don Paterson @dharmabam.bsky.social · 11d

Very 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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Don Paterson @dharmabam.bsky.social · 11d

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John Glenday @johnglenday.bsky.social · 12d

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North Sea Line Caught #1

An occasional series, featuring new work from North Sea Poets

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Don Paterson @dharmabam.bsky.social · 13d

two more than I’ve ever managed, John …

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Don Paterson @dharmabam.bsky.social · 16d

thanks Laura! too many slides as usual …

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Don Paterson @dharmabam.bsky.social · 26d

me banging on about Woodman, Plath and spirit photography … open.substack.com/pub/northsea...

On Francesca Woodman, Plath and Spirit Photography

Don Paterson on the art of the self-timer

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Don Paterson @dharmabam.bsky.social · Aug 29

Great piece from Lesley Harrison on Inger Christensen and writing under the shadow of the Bomb … open.substack.com/pub/northsea...

Writing the Last Word

Lesley Harrison on the poetry of Inger Christensen

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Don Paterson @dharmabam.bsky.social · Aug 22

Same, and totally agree

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Don Paterson @dharmabam.bsky.social · Aug 22

Niall C on winkles, animism, and a frequent topic of conversation round here – Jack Gilbert.

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On the World That Calls Back

Niall Campbell on Jack Gilbert and the world’s response

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Don Paterson @dharmabam.bsky.social · Aug 20

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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Association for Scottish Literature @asls.org.uk · Aug 14

“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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PN Review Print and Online Poetry Magazine - Do Birds Sing? - Lesley Harrison - PN Review 284

One of the outstanding poetry journals of our time.

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Don Paterson @dharmabam.bsky.social · Aug 1

Just posted a thing on misreadings, facepalms, iron, milk and spiders, and my most brutal encounter with Robert Frost yet …

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The Long Game

Don Paterson on the truth about iron, spiders and milk

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Don Paterson @dharmabam.bsky.social · Jul 25

Wonderful piece by Karen Solie on Fanny Howe, over at the northseapoets place …

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What Did You See?

Karen Solie remembers Fanny Howe

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Don Paterson @dharmabam.bsky.social · Jul 24

There’s still time to join me in some rather strange poetic territory this saturday morning …

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The Rhyme of Things: a new approach to metaphor with Don Paterson | North Sea Poets

In this class, Don Paterson will explore a radically different approach to poetic metaphor, one which can unite image, detail and tone through deep and sometimes hidden connection.

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Don Paterson @dharmabam.bsky.social · Jul 24

There’s still time to join me in some rather strange poetic territory this saturday morning …

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The Rhyme of Things: a new approach to metaphor with Don Paterson | North Sea Poets

In this class, Don Paterson will explore a radically different approach to poetic metaphor, one which can unite image, detail and tone through deep and sometimes hidden connection.

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Don Paterson @dharmabam.bsky.social · Jul 12

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...

A Weather Eye with John Glenday | North Sea Poets

In this immersive 90-minute workshop we'll use examples, discussions and quick-fire exercises to create new work, focussing on the inner weather of the poem.

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Don Paterson @dharmabam.bsky.social · Jul 11

Lisa Brockwell on Elizabeth Bishop, Robinson Crusoe and the perversity of nostalgia, over at the northseapoets place …

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Each Nick and Scratch by Heart: Elizabeth Bishop’s Island Industries

Lisa Brockwell on the perversity of nostalgia

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Don Paterson @dharmabam.bsky.social · Jul 4

Glenday on paying attention and reading Nick Laird’s Up Late - over at the northseapoets place …

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Now Read On

John Glenday on Paying Attention.

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David Wheatley @nemoloris.bsky.social · Jul 3

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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Diogo Jota obituary

Versatile forward who won the Premier League and FA Cup with Liverpool and the Nations league with Portugal

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Don Paterson @dharmabam.bsky.social · Jun 27

Niall C at the northseapoets place today on touch, grit and island funerals …

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On Writing for the Hands

Niall Campbell writes about grit and an island funeral

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