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Last post of 2025! 📰

What If It's Not Writer's Block? – Niall Campbell contemplates the other reason writing stops

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December 19, 2025 at 3:54 PM
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– Gerard Manley Hopkins

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December 18, 2025 at 10:25 AM
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– Harold Pinter in a letter to Tom Stoppard, 1st November 2001.

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A quote from Harold Pinter against a lightteal background. The North Sea poets logo is in the bottom right corner. The text reads: 'Dear Tom, Thank you for your invitation to host a fundraising dinner in the private room of a top London restaurant. I would rather die. All the best, Yours, Harold. Harold Pinter in a letter to Tom Stoppard, 1st November 2001'.
December 16, 2025 at 10:25 AM
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New post 📰

Aristotle's Lantern - Twenty-Four Digressions on Light – @johnglenday.bsky.social turns his mind towards the solstice

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December 15, 2025 at 10:25 AM
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Catch up on new writing from the #NorthSeaPoets 🌊

#amreading Is Poetry a Career?

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A quote from Lisa Brockwell in the newest Substack post: Is Poetry a Career. The text reads: "'Career' is a terrible word to describe a life dedicated to writing poems. It's a lifelong apprenticeship in service of the poem, not the person writing the poem." The Substack logo is in the bottom right corner.
December 12, 2025 at 10:25 AM
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– Anthony Domestico, NYRB 4.12.25

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A quote from Anthony Domestico against a dark teal background. The North Sea poets logo is in the bottom right corner. The text reads: 'In 1956 Amy Clampitt had a conversion experience while visiting The Cloisters in Manhattan ... Listening to medieval music, she experienced the song and the world as one: "The Kyrie, which is of course a cry for mercy, and the sun on the stone, a purely physical phenomenon, seemed while I listened to have some affinity, almost to be one and the same thing". Clampitt felt the whole world "brimming with radiance". "Possibly this is what is supposed to take place at baptism," she wrote her brother, "but if baptism it was, it wasn't of water, but of light".
December 11, 2025 at 3:54 PM
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COMING UP THIS SATURDAY!

Join @dharmabam.bsky.social for the final instalment of the winter webinars: The Symbol: how to summon meaning and emotion 🌊

🗓️ Saturday 13th December
⏰ 11am-1pm GMT
🎟️ £35/£25

Book your spot: buff.ly/58A54Zv

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December 10, 2025 at 10:25 AM
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Don't miss out on the last #NorthSeaPoets event of the year! 🌊

There's still time to book for The Symbol: how to summon meaning and emotion – with @dharmabam.bsky.social. Book your tickets for £35/£25 🎟️

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A description of upcoming North Sea Poets events set against a light teal background. The North Sea Poets logo is in the top right corner. The text reads: 'Upcoming events. The Symbol: how to summon meaning and emotion – with Don Paterson. In this class, we'll look at at when an image merely stands for itself, and when it acts as a totem for a far more subtle – and otherwise inexpressible – meanings and emotions.
December 9, 2025 at 3:54 PM
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New post 📰

Is Poetry a Career? – We asked ourselves and we don't think so

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December 8, 2025 at 10:25 AM
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Catch up on new writing from the #NorthSeaPoets 🌊

#amreading Heaney on the Underground – Don Paterson on Seamus Heaney's choice of words

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A quote from Don Paterson's newest Substack post: Heaney on the Underground. The text reads: "'The Underground' is as densely folded and woven – 'implicated'? – a piece of language as I know.' The Substack logo is in the bottom right corner.
December 5, 2025 at 3:54 PM
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THIS SATURDAY!

The Art of Space: how to let a poem breathe – with @dharmabam.bsky.social 🌊

🗓️ Saturday 6th December
⏰ 11am-1pm GMT
🎟️ £35/£25

Book your spot: buff.ly/P04LhDZ

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December 4, 2025 at 10:25 AM
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– Agnes Martin, Interview (1966)

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December 3, 2025 at 3:54 PM
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@dharmabam.bsky.social's next winter webinar is coming up this Saturday! 🌊

Book your spot on The Art of Space for £35/£25 🎟️

Get all the details: buff.ly/P04LhDZ

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December 2, 2025 at 10:25 AM
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New post from @dharmabam.bsky.social 📰

Heaney on the Underground – Don Paterson on Seamus Heaney's choice of words

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December 1, 2025 at 10:25 AM
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Catch up on new writing from the #NorthSeaPoets 🌊

#amreading Glacier – Guest Poet Garry MacKenzie writes on his new long poem ...

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November 28, 2025 at 1:06 PM
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– Hisham Matar, 'A Month in Siena'

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November 27, 2025 at 3:54 PM
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THIS SATURDAY!

The Joy of Scansion: how to know the dancer from the dance – with @dharmabam.bsky.social 🌊

🗓️ Saturday 29th November
⏰ 11am-1pm GMT
🎟️ £35/£25
⭐ or book all three winter webinars for £90/£60

Book your spot: buff.ly/KBzjLx6

#NorthSeaPoets #PoetrySky
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November 26, 2025 at 10:25 AM
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@dharmabam.bsky.socia 's winter webinars series gets started this Saturday! 🌊

There's still lots of time to get tickets for The Joy of Scansion! Or book all three webinars for £90/£60 ⭐

Get all the details and book tickets: buff.ly/KnyxxuK

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November 25, 2025 at 3:54 PM
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New guest post 📰

Glacier – Garry MacKenzie writes on his new long poem

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November 24, 2025 at 10:25 AM
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Catch up on new writing from the #NorthSeaPoets 🌊

#amreading What Book Would You Buy a Poet for Xmas?

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November 22, 2025 at 2:58 PM
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And finally in @dharmabam.bsky.social's winter webinar mini-series is The Symbol: how to summon meaning and emotion 🌊

🗓️ Saturday 13th December
⏰ 11am-1pm GMT
🎟️ £35/£25
⭐ or book all three winter webinars for £90/£60

Book your spot: buff.ly/khfCh59

#NorthSeaPoets #PoetrySky
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November 21, 2025 at 3:54 PM
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Next in @dharmabam.bsky.social's winter webinar mini-series is The Art of Space: how to let a poem breathe 🌊

🗓️ Saturday 6th December
⏰ 11am-1pm GMT
🎟️ £35/£25
⭐ or book all three winter webinars for £90/£60

Book your spot: buff.ly/EZ5MOj5

#NorthSeaPoets #PoetrySky
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November 20, 2025 at 10:25 AM
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The first of Don Paterson's winter webinar mini-series is The Joy of Scansion: how to know the dancer from the dance 🌊

🗓️ Saturday 29th November
⏰ 11am-1pm GMT
🎟️ £35/£25
⭐ or book all three winter webinars for £90/£60

Book your spot: buff.ly/KBzjLx6

#NorthSeaPoets #PoetrySky
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November 19, 2025 at 3:54 PM
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Coming up on northseapoets.com 🌊

Plenty of time to book your place on @dharmabam.bsky.social's winter webinars. The Joy of Scansion gets things started on Saturday 29th November. Get a 3-in-1 ticket for all three webinars for £90/£60 ⭐

#NorthSeaPoets #PoetrySky
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November 18, 2025 at 10:25 AM
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New post 📰

What Book Would You Buy a Poet for Xmas

… that wasn’t a poetry book? The #NorthSeaPoets had a think ...

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November 17, 2025 at 11:19 AM