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What Poems Should I Memorise? – Niall Campbell asks our readers for their suggestions

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The first #NorthSeaPoets live event is coming up this Friday! 🌊

The Kirk Sessions: an evening of poetry and music

🗓️ 3rd April
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– Edith Hall, The Naked and the Dead. Lit Review 547

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Join us for the first #NorthSeaPoets live event 🌊

The Kirk Sessions: an evening of poetry and music

Kathleen Jamie, Don Paterson, John Glenday, Lesley Harrison, Lisa Brockwell with music from David Ogilvy & Don Paterson

🗓️ 7pm BST, Friday 3rd April
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– Jorge Luis Borges, ‘The Divine Comedy’

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#AmReading A Year of North Sea Poets – that went quick

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– Gwen John, unbound notebooks

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Join us for the first #NorthSeaPoets live event 🌊

The Kirk Sessions: an evening of poetry and music

Kathleen Jamie, Don Paterson, John Glenday, Lesley Harrison, Lisa Brockwell with music from David Ogilvy & Don Paterson

🗓️ 7pm BST, Friday 3rd April
📍 Cortachy Kirk
🎟️ £12/£10

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– Louise Glück, Proofs and Theories

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– TS Eliot, letter to Henry Treece, 8 Sept 1943

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Tickets are now available for the first #NorthSeaPoets live event! Join us at Cortachy Kirk for The Kirk Sessions: an evening of poetry and music.

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– Henry Moore, ‘The Sculptor Speaks’. The Listener 18 Aug 1937. Reproduced on tate.org

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#AmReading To Begin at the Beginning – It is spring, or it will be eventually – we look forward to it with some of our favourite poems

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– Louise Glück, Proofs and Theories

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Announcing the first #NorthSeaPoets live event 🌊

The Kirk Sessions: an evening of poetry and music

Kathleen Jamie, Don Paterson, John Glenday, Lesley Harrison, Lisa Brockwell with music from David Ogilvy & Don Paterson

🗓️ 3rd April
⏰ 7pm BST
📍 Cortachy Kirk, Kirriemuir
🎟️ £12/£10

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– August Strindberg, 'On Chance in Artistic Creation'

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#AmReading South of my Days – Lisa Brockwell longs for the light while hiding from the glare

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– Douglas Stewart, The Fire on the Snow

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