Just posted a webinar where I’ll take a close look Heaney’s style, and the various techniques, stratagems & quirks of which it was composed. Should be fun. If folk are up for it, I may do a few of these.
www.northseapoets.com/events/heane...
Excellent guest post from Joey Connolly over at the north sea poets place, looking at what AI research can tell poets about their own art form …
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Mounting a wee experiment here www.northseapoets.com/events/sunda... to see if we can recreate the legendary druidic magic of Stones Barn reading circle (still time to book here www.tickettailor.com/events/forgo... ) online. Three sessions starting in April. Sunday mornings, like church
Wonderful piece by Karen Solie over at the north sea poets place on reverie, deadlines and escalators … open.substack.com/pub/northsea...
It’s Burns night tonight … better check the haggis traps. I’ve slapped up something at the northseapoets place on Burns’ psychology and how ‘Tam O’Shanter’ is key to understanding his abandonment of poetry northseapoets.substack.com/p/the-burns-...
Our spring ‘writing with …’ course (this time: windows, beasts, Jack Gilbert, lost objects and much more - well three things more) has almost sold out: only a few tickets left for both weds and sat series ... www.northseapoets.com/courses
The new North Sea Poets ‘Writing With …’ spring course has just gone live. We’re running it over seven weeks from Feb (twice, on Weds and Saturdays) – but both dates are half sold out already, so do get your skates on if you’d like to join us … www.northseapoets.com/courses
mostly things just turn into origami ngl
there’s still just time to join me for the last of the winter webinars tomorrow morning - on ‘symbol’. this may be my most ambitious powerpoint yet. some of these transitions are berserk
www.northseapoets.com/events-1
Just a week left to sign up for a mini-series of webinars, starting with ‘The Joy of Scansion’ on the 29th Nov. In the following weeks I’ll be looking at ideas of poetic space and symbol ... Book individually or as a 3-in-1 at www.northseapoets.com/events-1
just posted some fluff on fluff, deadlines and how to kiss on the radio open.substack.com/pub/northsea...
Lesley Harrison on excellent form, writing about bird-names, birdsong and poetry over at the northseapoets place:
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A frog poem from Reflector - my limited edition art book collaboration with #Dundee artist Stephen French: stephenfrench.art
New mini-series of winter webinars, starting with ‘The Joy of Scansion’ on the 29th Nov. Come along and we’ll erm learn to demote that strong stress! etc. We’ll look at poetic space and symbol in the following weeks ... Book individually or as a 3-in-1 at www.northseapoets.com/events-1
Wrote something on Harrison & class. Also scansion. But remember the first rule of Foot Club. open.substack.com/pub/northsea...
As for many poets uneasy in their class consciousness, Tony Harrison’s brilliant controversial long poem V. (1985) blew me away when I first read it. But his short lyrics were sharp, wise, and deeply moving, too, cut from lived life. Saddened to hear the great man has passed. RIP.
ach that’s great. the ‘gateway drug’ compliment is overused but in TH’s case that’s often been the reality of it
indeed, Bill. wonderful.
Very sad news about Tony H. Many poets of my own generation and class owe Tony almost everything. We might never have gone near poetry without him.
two more than I’ve ever managed, John …
thanks Laura! too many slides as usual …
Great piece from Lesley Harrison on Inger Christensen and writing under the shadow of the Bomb … open.substack.com/pub/northsea...
Same, and totally agree
