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North Sea Poets
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North Sea Poets @northseapoets.bsky.social · 15h
Catch up on new writing from the #NorthSeaPoets 🌊

#amreading Tony Harrison's Study – Don Paterson on the best room

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North Sea Poets @northseapoets.bsky.social · 1d
– Jan Zwicky, Introduction to the Tractatus

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T. S. Eliot Prize @tseliotprize.bsky.social · 2d
We are thrilled to be able to reveal this year's T.S. Eliot Prize shortlist!
Our judges have chosen ten books "of great range, suggestiveness and power; from Entebbe to Manitoba... there is something here for everyone."

Find out more now: tseliot.com/prize/news/
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North Sea Poets @northseapoets.bsky.social · 2d
New post from @dharmabam.bsky.social 📰

Tony Harrison's 'Study' – Don Paterson on the best room

Read the full post: buff.ly/FZGCeEs

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North Sea Poets @northseapoets.bsky.social · 5d
– Kevin MacNeil, Introduction to These Islands, We Sing

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North Sea Poets @northseapoets.bsky.social · 7d
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We are a group of experienced poets based near the Scottish east coast. We run online masterclasses, and post here on poetry, poetics and the writing life. Click to read North Sea Poets, a Substack pu...
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North Sea Poets @northseapoets.bsky.social · 7d
It's a busy week with a new Studio getting started and another instalment of 'Writing With' 🍂

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North Sea Poets @northseapoets.bsky.social · 8d
– Gerhard Richter, The Daily Practice of Painting (2005)

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North Sea Poets @northseapoets.bsky.social · 9d
Introducing North Sea Line Caught on #Substack 📰

An occasional series, featuring new work from #NorthSeaPoets

Read a new poem from @johnglenday.bsky.social here: buff.ly/giEV1tN

Be sure to follow for more!

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North Sea Poets @northseapoets.bsky.social · 12d
Fantastic! See you next week.
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John Adlam 🌈🌍 @johnadlam.bsky.social · 14d
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Today is week two of the 'Writing with...' webinar from @northseapoets.bsky.social. Last week it was @dharmabam.bsky.social on Sylvia Plath. Thanks to him & Sylvia I seem now only to be able to write in 3-line stanzas of (7-)syllabic verse. Two of these so far!🥰
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North Sea Poets @northseapoets.bsky.social · 12d
Glad to hear you enjoyed it! See you next week for more.
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Sarah O @palimpsest22.bsky.social · 14d
@northseapoets.bsky.social Ekphrastic working. Another illuminating rich workshop this evening from @johnglenday.bsky.social , 'scrutiny +memory =imagination'. 👌
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North Sea Poets @northseapoets.bsky.social · 12d
– Eliot Weinberger, The Life of Tu Fu

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North Sea Poets @northseapoets.bsky.social · 14d
– Charles Simic, 'Notes on Poetry and History'

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North Sea Poets @northseapoets.bsky.social · 16d
New on #Substack 📰

The #NorthSeaPoets on Sonnets and Waxings and Glück, Howe and Celtic – These are a few of our favourite links

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North Sea Poets @northseapoets.bsky.social · 19d
– Mary Ruefle, Madness, Rack and Honey: Collected Lectures

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North Sea Poets @northseapoets.bsky.social · 20d
Thanks for coming! See you next week 😀
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North Sea Poets @northseapoets.bsky.social · 21d
The #NorthSeaPoets autumn course 'Writing With ...' gets started tonight 🍂

Missed out on a ticket? Want first access to new courses and events? Make sure you're subscribed for reflections on poetry, poetics and the writing life delivered straight to your inbox ✉️

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North Sea Poets @northseapoets.bsky.social · 23d
New on #Substack from @dharmabam.bsky.social 📰

On Francesca Woodman, Plath and Spirit Photography – Don Paterson on the art of the self-timer

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North Sea Poets @northseapoets.bsky.social · 26d
– Charles Simic, in Totemic Sifting (Vendler, 1993)

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North Sea Poets @northseapoets.bsky.social · 28d
Congratulations again to all the shortlisted poets, and of course to #NorthSeaPoets @niallpoetry.bsky.social and Karen Solie 🌊
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Forward Prizes for Poetry @forwardprizes.bsky.social · Sep 8
We are proud to reannounce the exceptional shortlist for the Forward Prize for Best Collection, celebrating the finest in contemporary poetry.
Congratulations once again to all the poets and publishers!

🔗 Full shortlist: buff.ly/FJ2m0TM

#ForwardPrizes
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North Sea Poets @northseapoets.bsky.social · 28d
– Xu Bing, Book from the Sky

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North Sea Poets @northseapoets.bsky.social · Sep 8
New on #Substack 📰

A Bit of a Performance – John Glenday on the ins and outs of reading poetry to the public

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North Sea Poets @northseapoets.bsky.social · Sep 5
– John Keats, Letters

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