Have posted a slightly bonkers class on the northseapoets site, looking at a very under-identified and -explored kind of parallel metaphor. Bit of a ‘try this one weird trick’, I admit, but it can work to make things both more coherent and a lot stranger. northseapoets.com/events/the-rhy…

I don’t write much on this subject and don’t intend to start, but some of you may know that - while my politics are small ‘s’, small ‘c’ and raging centrist - I’m a longstanding supporter of Scottish independence. I believe Scotland is a country 1/4

Just posted part one of an essay on the joy and agony of anthologies, over at the northseapoets place – on the origins of the form, the genius of Frances Palgrave and the financial reasons there will never be a book called Cheese Dreams: an Anthology of Dairy-Themed Verse

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Can’t wait to teach this! One of my favourite books and every poet should read it!

This will be brilliant

think there’s just a couple of places left on this one. Gods of the Word blew the top of my head off 20 years ago. This’ll be great.

Important new essay on the death of poetry criticism from Ben Wilkinson - a new guest post on the north sea poets substack. A must-read: open.substack.com/pub/northseapo…

Looking forward to teaching on the North Sea Poets brand new autumn course. Tickets available now. northseapoets.com/courses-1

Absolutely agree Niall Campbell. Bad Lilies always a treat, particularly verdant in the summer Bad Lilies

Wonderful news!

Brilliant piece on the long game by don paterson up on the North Sea Poets SStack

One of my favourite elegies

New webinars with don paterson up on the North Sea Poets site. Get in quick!

We’ve a beautiful new Bad Lilies landing on Halloween! Expect poems that will stay with you at this time of the thin veil between worlds.

fancy an intensive 1-day workshop with kathleen jamie? details over at the northseapoets site - only six places …northseapoets.com/studios1daywor…