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A perfect little poem about class, by Charles Lang (from The Oasis, published this week by @skeinpress.bsky.social)

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#NorthSeaPoets are offering a range of individual events, but also a 7-week course on Poetry Fundamentals led by six amazing poets. And me. We’ve limited places to 25 on this one: #Poetry www.northseapoets.com/events/poetr...

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Introducing the 12 emerging writers selected for our New Writers Award 2025. Thank you to @creativescots.bsky.social, @leughleabhar.bsky.social and the family of Callan Gordon for their invaluable support. www.scottishbooktrust.com/writing-and-...

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Also: North Sea Poets' first Substack - what is poetry *for?

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Deeply embedded in poetry lie honesty, respect, humility and concern for human and natural worlds. I'm delighted to be a part of #NorthSeaPoets, offering online masterclasses, workshops and webinars to poets and readers. #Poetry northseapoets.com 🌊 Follow @northseapoets.bsky.social to learn more

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Posted before but time to post it again:

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Today sees the publication of the wonderful 'Fower Pessoas' by @brambrella.bsky.social from @carcanet.bsky.social We spoke with Colin Bramwell - well worth a look #poetry #translation #scots #scotland #pessoa #fernandopessoa themadridreview.com/f/fower-pess...

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Dream poetry day: reading my Poems on the Underground poem at Covent Garden Tube Station, recording it to be played over the tannoy to commuters, lunch with poetry heroes and a goodbye laugh with my girl. What a day!

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Niall Campbell ‘February Morning’ @poemsonthetube.bsky.social

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What are words, I want to ask you… ‘A Talk with Friedrich Nietzsche - Adam Zagajewski.

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There are days when it’s hard to tell where the sea ends and the sky begins.

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Celebrating the Overlooked: An evening of poetry with John Glenday 11 Feb, Stromness, £1–£6 Poet @johnglenday.bsky.social will celebrate the insignificant, the unnoticed, the disregarded & the overlooked, from insects, to weeds, to the politely respectful dead www.ticketsource.co.uk/whats-on/ork...

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High Treason’ by José Emilio Pacheco, translated by Alastair Reid, from ‘Barefoot’ The Collected Poems of Alastair Reid (Galileo 2018)

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Et in Orcadia ego.

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For all you pied wagtail lovers out there - The Pan Macmillan Friday poem: Kathleen Jamie - Deliverance

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‘Boreen’ by Michael Longley - 27/7/39 - 22/01/25

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Katharine Towers ‘The Window’ from her 2015 collection ‘The Remedies’.

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Deception, self-deception, advance by degrees, my dead friend reminds me, and who hasn’t brought themselves to harm because they thought they had to? The dead can be kinder than the living, if you are not related to them. ‘Orion’, a poem by Karen Solie: www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v4...

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Um No.

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A poem for our times, written a century ago. Anna Akhmatova, translated by Stanley Kunitz:

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When I am reading the literature of my people I think, We have no Homer no poet as great as that, at all as great as that, in that way in that marvellous way… —“When I am Reading”, by Iain Mac a' Ghobhainn/Iain Crichton Smith (1928–1998) – born #OTD, 1 Jan. A 🎂🧵 1/5

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I wish you all a year of open doors.

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‘I’m frightened but I’m here.’ First Illness, from Niall Campbell’s Forward shortlisted collection ‘Noctuary’ (Bloodaxe 2019) #Poetry @bloodaxebooks.bsky.social www.bloodaxebooks.com/ecs/product/...

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Early 1970s I went to hear Kurt Vonnegut give a talk and the only thing I can remember is him saying he would write each character’s lines in a different colour of ink. That way he could see at a glance where their lives touched, mingled together and eventually flew apart. I just hope it was true.

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John Cage, master of the bon mot: ‘I can’t understand why people are frightened of new ideas. I’m frightened of the old ones.’

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From Environmental Poet of the Year, Ben Verinder’s How to Save a River: museumshops.uk/product/how-...

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A festive greeting from @alecfinlay.bsky.social is always special:

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A Note on Spelling from Camille Ralphs brilliant debut collection ‘After You Were, I Am’.

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Sound advice from Nicanor Parra. #Poetry

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The names of Arbroath fishing boats in the 1900s. #Scotland

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Nicola Healey wins the Michael Marks Poetry Pamphlet Award 2024 for ‘ A Newer Wilderness’. daregale.com/product/a-ne...

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From ‘Self Portrait with a Swarm of Bees - Jan Wagner, trns. Iain Galbraith:

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Dog’s Christmas jumper looks like the Ghost of Knitwear Past.

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Congratulations to Ben Verinder - Michael Marks Awards Environmental Poet of the Year. michaelmarksawards.org/awards/epoty...

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‘…they must be cooled/too the Grace of being common-‘ Denise Riley’s advice on writing #Poetry.

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