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‘How does a painting haunt a poem?’ In the Scottish Society for Art History journal, Dr Catriona McAra discusses the ‘literary paintings’ of Alison Watt RSA.
November 14, 2025 at 3:39 PM
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Coming up on northseapoets.com 🌊

@dharmabam.bsky.social's winter webinars get started with the Joy of Scansion on Saturday 29th November. Get a 3-in-1 ticket for all three webinars for £90/£60 ⭐

#NorthSeaPoets #PoetrySky
November 11, 2025 at 3:54 PM
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Loads of great events on at @ptbopoetry.bsky.social in Edinburgh this November, including poet Garry MacKenzie and film-maker Sam Firth's poetry-film, one of three
poetry-led performance commissions in association with the National Theatre of Scotland.
pushtheboatout.org/events/anthr...
Anthropocene – New Poetic Performances - 2025 Push The Boat Out Festival
pushtheboatout.org
October 31, 2025 at 12:12 PM
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A one-day North Sea Poets workshop with myself, if you fancy it? Details at www.northseapoets.com/studios1dayw...
October 30, 2025 at 1:31 PM
The carefully trodden language of grief - Goose to Donkey from Les Murray ‘Translations from the Natural World’.
October 26, 2025 at 8:50 AM
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Kim Moore is judging this year's Poetry Business International Book & Pamphlet Competition. Submit 20 pages of poetry by 2nd November -- two winning entries will be selected for publication by Smith|Doorstop Books.

poetrybusiness.co.uk/competitions...
The International Book & Pamphlet Competition - The Poetry Business
The 2026 International Book & Pamphlet Competition is open from 1st OCTOBER 2025 The UK’s most prestigious collection competition – […]
poetrybusiness.co.uk
October 3, 2025 at 5:35 PM
North Sea Line Caught, #2: ‘Kissing on the Radio’
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North Sea Line Caught, #2: ‘Kissing on the Radio’
Don Paterson on a short history of fluff
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October 24, 2025 at 1:02 PM
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‘My Leddy, gaird o ivry unco airt!
Ye’ve gaithered the airts, ye’ve held them in yir haun,
Ye’ve braided the airts, smooricht thaim tae yir breist.’

From Robert Crawford’s Scots version of ‘Enheduanna’s Song’, a Sumerian hymn: www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v4...
Robert Crawford · Poem: ‘Enheduanna’s Song’
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October 19, 2025 at 3:26 PM
A frog poem from Reflector - my limited edition art book collaboration with #Dundee artist Stephen French: stephenfrench.art
October 15, 2025 at 8:19 AM
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Submissions opened on Thursday 2 October (National Poetry Day) for the 2025 #williambonarpoetryprize! Red Squirrel Press in partnership with St Mungo’s Mirrorball. The deadline is 31 December 2025. Please see below for full details and rules.
October 6, 2025 at 4:11 PM
Any blue sky in Bluesky tonight?
Aurora likely.
October 1, 2025 at 7:56 PM