Kathleen Jamie
@kathleenjamie.bsky.social
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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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.
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New post 📰
Everything I have not written
Lesley Harrison on the silent poem behind the poem
Read the full post: buff.ly/fNdsENG
#NorthSeaPoets #PoetrySky
Everything I have not written
Lesley Harrison on the silent poem behind the poem
Read the full post: buff.ly/fNdsENG
#NorthSeaPoets #PoetrySky
November 10, 2025 at 10:25 AM
New post 📰
Everything I have not written
Lesley Harrison on the silent poem behind the poem
Read the full post: buff.ly/fNdsENG
#NorthSeaPoets #PoetrySky
Everything I have not written
Lesley Harrison on the silent poem behind the poem
Read the full post: buff.ly/fNdsENG
#NorthSeaPoets #PoetrySky
Reposted by Kathleen Jamie
North Sea Poetry Weekend Bulletin - ballads, birds, new classes
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North Sea Poetry Weekend Bulletin - ballads, birds, new classes
A Weekend Update from North Sea Poets - 1st November 2025
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November 1, 2025 at 12:04 PM
North Sea Poetry Weekend Bulletin - ballads, birds, new classes
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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
A one-day North Sea Poets workshop with myself, if you fancy it? Details at www.northseapoets.com/studios1dayw...
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just posted some fluff on fluff, deadlines and how to kiss on the radio open.substack.com/pub/northsea...
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 1:00 PM
just posted some fluff on fluff, deadlines and how to kiss on the radio open.substack.com/pub/northsea...
Reposted by Kathleen Jamie
Reposted by Kathleen Jamie
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
#NorthSeaPoets #PoetrySky
On the World That Calls Back – Niall Campbell on Jack Gilbert and the world's response
Read the full post: buff.ly/SIc5VAk
#NorthSeaPoets #PoetrySky
August 25, 2025 at 9:25 AM
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
#NorthSeaPoets #PoetrySky
On the World That Calls Back – Niall Campbell on Jack Gilbert and the world's response
Read the full post: buff.ly/SIc5VAk
#NorthSeaPoets #PoetrySky
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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August 15, 2025 at 9:59 AM
Where Have All the Great Poets Gone? My North Sea Poets substack... open.substack.com/pub/northsea...
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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 🌊
#PoetrySky
'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 🌊
#PoetrySky
August 13, 2025 at 9:25 AM
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 🌊
#PoetrySky
'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 🌊
#PoetrySky
Arresting the poets are we? Not a good look.
August 10, 2025 at 11:40 AM
Arresting the poets are we? Not a good look.
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Applications are still open for Studio 2 with Niall Campbell @niallpoetry.bsky.social ✍️
Get all the details: buff.ly/TBILVRi
Only eight places available!
#NorthSeaPoets #PoetryWorkshops #PoetrySky
Get all the details: buff.ly/TBILVRi
Only eight places available!
#NorthSeaPoets #PoetryWorkshops #PoetrySky
August 8, 2025 at 2:54 PM
Applications are still open for Studio 2 with Niall Campbell @niallpoetry.bsky.social ✍️
Get all the details: buff.ly/TBILVRi
Only eight places available!
#NorthSeaPoets #PoetryWorkshops #PoetrySky
Get all the details: buff.ly/TBILVRi
Only eight places available!
#NorthSeaPoets #PoetryWorkshops #PoetrySky
Congratulations to all five finalists!
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
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
£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
August 4, 2025 at 4:45 PM
Congratulations to all five finalists!
If you missed out we're running the same course, this time on Saturdays.
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.
buff.ly/jidqkOm
#PoetrySky #PoetryWorkshop
This seven-week course will cover everything from landscapes to ghosts, from Heaney to Plath.
buff.ly/jidqkOm
#PoetrySky #PoetryWorkshop
August 2, 2025 at 7:40 AM
If you missed out we're running the same course, this time on Saturdays.
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Just posted a thing on misreadings, facepalms, iron, milk and spiders, and my most brutal encounter with Robert Frost yet …
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open.substack.com/pub/northsea...
The Long Game
Don Paterson on the truth about iron, spiders and milk
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August 1, 2025 at 8:24 AM
Just posted a thing on misreadings, facepalms, iron, milk and spiders, and my most brutal encounter with Robert Frost yet …
open.substack.com/pub/northsea...
open.substack.com/pub/northsea...
Yon tree. You know the one.
July 17, 2025 at 8:04 PM
Yon tree. You know the one.
Love this. Longbarrow Press, keeping it real.
Inventory open.substack.com/pub/longbarr...
Inventory open.substack.com/pub/longbarr...
Inventory
On 19 years of Longbarrow Press
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July 7, 2025 at 7:44 AM
Love this. Longbarrow Press, keeping it real.
Inventory open.substack.com/pub/longbarr...
Inventory open.substack.com/pub/longbarr...
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.
www.northseapoets.com
June 21, 2025 at 12:18 PM
Landscape. Death. Bishop. Ghosts. Plath. Artists. Heaney: “Writing With” begins in September. Details at www.northseapoets.com/events/north...
Reposted by Kathleen Jamie
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
#NorthSeaPoets #PoetrySky #PoetryCommunity
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
#NorthSeaPoets #PoetrySky #PoetryCommunity
June 20, 2025 at 3:13 PM
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
#NorthSeaPoets #PoetrySky #PoetryCommunity
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
#NorthSeaPoets #PoetrySky #PoetryCommunity
Poetry. Community. Learning from each other (and two North Sea Poet tutors). Poetry Studios start this September. Applications open now.
Introducing North Sea Poetry Studios ✍️
Get all the details at buff.ly/jr31JCJ
Only eight places available!
#NorthSeaPoets #PoetryWorkshops #PoetrySky
Get all the details at buff.ly/jr31JCJ
Only eight places available!
#NorthSeaPoets #PoetryWorkshops #PoetrySky
June 19, 2025 at 7:30 AM
Poetry. Community. Learning from each other (and two North Sea Poet tutors). Poetry Studios start this September. Applications open now.
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.
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.
June 12, 2025 at 7:56 AM
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.
Cheese Dreams: Don Paterson writing about what he knows, the poetry anthology.
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
#NorthSeaPoets #PoetrySky #PoetryCommunity
‘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
#NorthSeaPoets #PoetrySky #PoetryCommunity
May 31, 2025 at 7:19 AM
Cheese Dreams: Don Paterson writing about what he knows, the poetry anthology.
On Not Writing - my new substack for North Sea Poets.
Now, back to my dwam*
Dwam: Scots for daydream or waking trance. open.substack.com/pub/northsea...
Now, back to my dwam*
Dwam: Scots for daydream or waking trance. open.substack.com/pub/northsea...
On Not Writing
Kathleen Jamie considers the fallow times
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May 23, 2025 at 8:51 AM
On Not Writing - my new substack for North Sea Poets.
Now, back to my dwam*
Dwam: Scots for daydream or waking trance. open.substack.com/pub/northsea...
Now, back to my dwam*
Dwam: Scots for daydream or waking trance. open.substack.com/pub/northsea...
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Here's what's coming up on northseapoets.com 🌊
Get all the details and book tickets at the link!
#NorthSeaPoets #PoetrySky #PoetryWorkshops
Get all the details and book tickets at the link!
#NorthSeaPoets #PoetrySky #PoetryWorkshops
May 19, 2025 at 1:35 PM
Here's what's coming up on northseapoets.com 🌊
Get all the details and book tickets at the link!
#NorthSeaPoets #PoetrySky #PoetryWorkshops
Get all the details and book tickets at the link!
#NorthSeaPoets #PoetrySky #PoetryWorkshops
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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.
buff.ly/4rgpAjm
#NorthSeaPoets #PoetrySky #EcoPoetry #KathleenJamie
We'll explore recent eco-poetry, and ask how poets can pay radical attention to non-humans – or even speak on their behalf.
buff.ly/4rgpAjm
#NorthSeaPoets #PoetrySky #EcoPoetry #KathleenJamie
May 15, 2025 at 10:30 AM
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.
buff.ly/4rgpAjm
#NorthSeaPoets #PoetrySky #EcoPoetry #KathleenJamie
We'll explore recent eco-poetry, and ask how poets can pay radical attention to non-humans – or even speak on their behalf.
buff.ly/4rgpAjm
#NorthSeaPoets #PoetrySky #EcoPoetry #KathleenJamie