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Kathleen Jamie
@kathleenjamie.bsky.social
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Poet, essayist. Author of 'Findings', 'Sightlines', 'Surfacing' and 'Cairn'. Erstwhile National Poet of Scotland. Terrible at art, alas. What else? Today is all low winter sun and jackdaws.
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Kathleen Jamie @kathleenjamie.bsky.social · Mar 1
North Sea Poets is live! We offer online masterclasses, webinars, workshops for poets everywhere (novice or adept) and readers, because poems sing in the dark times. Hope you'll join us. Pls see website. Do share.
northseapoets.com 🌊

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Kathleen Jamie @kathleenjamie.bsky.social · 5d
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Tony Harrison's 'Study'
Don Paterson on the best room
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John Glenday @johnglenday.bsky.social · 13d
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North Sea Line Caught #1
An occasional series, featuring new work from North Sea Poets
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Kathleen Jamie @kathleenjamie.bsky.social · 14d
Ah well done. It's a lot of fun!
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North Sea Poets @northseapoets.bsky.social · Aug 25
New from @niallpoetry.bsky.social on #Substack 📰

On the World That Calls Back – Niall Campbell on Jack Gilbert and the world's response

Read the full post: buff.ly/SIc5VAk

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Kathleen Jamie @kathleenjamie.bsky.social · Aug 15
Where Have All the Great Poets Gone? My North Sea Poets substack... open.substack.com/pub/northsea...
Where Have All the Great Poets Gone?
Kathleen Jamie on the Giant Tortoises
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North Sea Poets @northseapoets.bsky.social · Aug 13
Tickets are going fast for our autumn course on Saturdays 🍂

'Writing With ...' is a series of seven classes, delivered weekly by the #NorthSeaPoets. The course will cover everything from landscapes to ghosts, from Heaney to Plath.

Get all the details at northseapoets.com 🌊

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Kathleen Jamie @kathleenjamie.bsky.social · Aug 10
Arresting the poets are we? Not a good look.
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North Sea Poets @northseapoets.bsky.social · Aug 8
Applications are still open for Studio 2 with Niall Campbell @niallpoetry.bsky.social ✍️

Get all the details: buff.ly/TBILVRi

Only eight places available!

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Kathleen Jamie @kathleenjamie.bsky.social · Aug 5
Ah, the North Bridge. Mind that?
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Kathleen Jamie @kathleenjamie.bsky.social · Aug 4
Congratulations to all five finalists!
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Bloodaxe Books @bloodaxebooks.bsky.social · Aug 4
Many congratulations to all five finalists for this year's Laurel Prize, especially to Katrina Porteous for her fourth poetry collection Rhizodont. #LaurelPrize2025 @poetryschool.bsky.social
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The Poetry School @poetryschool.bsky.social · Aug 4
Laurel Prize 2025 finalists!

£5k to winner & £1k to others. Winner on 19 Sept 5:30pm BST, live-streamed as part of BBC Contains Strong Language

Judith Beveridge Tintinnabulum
JR Carpenter Measures of Weather
Eliza O’Toole A Cranic of Ordinaries
Katrina Porteous Rhizodont
Carol Watts Mimic Pond
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Kathleen Jamie @kathleenjamie.bsky.social · Aug 2
If you missed out we're running the same course, this time on Saturdays.
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North Sea Poets @northseapoets.bsky.social · Aug 1
Back by popular demand! Join the #NorthSeaPoets autumn course 'Writing With ...' on Saturdays, starting 20th September.

This seven-week course will cover everything from landscapes to ghosts, from Heaney to Plath.

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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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Kathleen Jamie @kathleenjamie.bsky.social · Jul 17
Yon tree. You know the one.
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Kathleen Jamie @kathleenjamie.bsky.social · Jul 17
Ugh the portentous music.
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Kathleen Jamie @kathleenjamie.bsky.social · Jul 7
Love this. Longbarrow Press, keeping it real.
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Inventory
On 19 years of Longbarrow Press
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Kathleen Jamie @kathleenjamie.bsky.social · Jun 29
Divine.
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Kathleen Jamie @kathleenjamie.bsky.social · Jun 21
Landscape. Death. Bishop. Ghosts. Plath. Artists. Heaney: “Writing With” begins in September. Details at www.northseapoets.com/events/north...
North Sea Poets Autumn Course - 'Writing With ...' | North Sea Poets
A series of seven classes, each one delivered weekly by a different member of North Sea Poets, with a Q&A at the end of each session.
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North Sea Poets @northseapoets.bsky.social · Jun 20
New guest post from poet, editor and critic Ben Wilkinson 📰

Winners and Losers: The Death of the Poetry Critic – Ben Wilkinson on the current state of reviewing culture

Read the full post here: buff.ly/JIQIGvf

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Kathleen Jamie @kathleenjamie.bsky.social · Jun 19
Poetry. Community. Learning from each other (and two North Sea Poet tutors). Poetry Studios start this September. Applications open now.
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North Sea Poets @northseapoets.bsky.social · Jun 14
Introducing North Sea Poetry Studios ✍️

Get all the details at buff.ly/jr31JCJ

Only eight places available!

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Kathleen Jamie @kathleenjamie.bsky.social · Jun 12
Stone speaks in poetry. This was such a fun day, and quite the honour. The sun shone, tourist buses passed, and the Canongate Wall, which wreathes the Scottish Parliament with lines of poetry, now has three new plaques, craved by Gillian Forbes. Jackie Kay, Liz Lochead and me - sisters in verse.
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Scottish Poetry Library @byleaveswelive.bsky.social · Jun 11
The unveiling of new poetry inscribed stones at the Canongate Wall - @scotparl.bsky.social Presiding Officer Alison Johnstone MSP with former Scotland national Makars Kathleen Jamie, Jackie Kay and Liz Lochhead.
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Kathleen Jamie @kathleenjamie.bsky.social · May 31
Cheese Dreams: Don Paterson writing about what he knows, the poetry anthology.
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North Sea Poets @northseapoets.bsky.social · May 30
New post from @dharmabam.bsky.social 📰

‘Here by effacement the poem is restored to unity’: The Genius of the Golden Treasury, part I – Don Paterson on the joy and misery of the anthology

Read the full post here: buff.ly/rnDLD22

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Kathleen Jamie @kathleenjamie.bsky.social · May 23
On Not Writing - my new substack for North Sea Poets.
Now, back to my dwam*
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On Not Writing
Kathleen Jamie considers the fallow times
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North Sea Poets @northseapoets.bsky.social · May 19
Here's what's coming up on northseapoets.com 🌊

Get all the details and book tickets at the link!

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Kathleen Jamie @kathleenjamie.bsky.social · May 16
Thank you Corinna!
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North Sea Poets @northseapoets.bsky.social · May 15
Last chance to get a ticket for tonight's Speaking To, Speaking As with @kathleenjamie.bsky.social!

We'll explore recent eco-poetry, and ask how poets can pay radical attention to non-humans – or even speak on their behalf.

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