Scottish poet and musicianhttps://bsky.app/profile/dharmabam.bsky.socialhttps://bsky.app/profile/dharmabam.bsky.social/post/3mkabvxfppk2eshort essay on being thoroughly intimidated by Douglas Dunn’s ‘Remembering Lunch’, over at the northseapoets place … https://open.substack.com/pub/northseapoets/p/learning-from-dunn?r=yya9e&utm_medium=ios24 Apr 2026 10:10 +0000at://did:plc:zswmgfwkzxp537vsd7e2ihp6/app.bsky.feed.post/3mkabvxfppk2ehttps://bsky.app/profile/dharmabam.bsky.social/post/3mi4j32pfnc2pJust 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. https://www.northseapoets.com/events/heaney-a-style-guide-with-don-paterson28 Mar 2026 11:17 +0000at://did:plc:zswmgfwkzxp537vsd7e2ihp6/app.bsky.feed.post/3mi4j32pfnc2phttps://bsky.app/profile/dharmabam.bsky.social/post/3mgco4ghni224wee poem in LRB this week https://www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v48/n04/don-paterson/phoenix05 Mar 2026 11:12 +0000at://did:plc:zswmgfwkzxp537vsd7e2ihp6/app.bsky.feed.post/3mgco4ghni224https://bsky.app/profile/dharmabam.bsky.social/post/3mfut6aaxak24Excellent 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 … https://open.substack.com/pub/northseapoets/p/metrics-machine-tooling-a-new-human?r=yya9e&utm_medium=ios27 Feb 2026 23:06 +0000at://did:plc:zswmgfwkzxp537vsd7e2ihp6/app.bsky.feed.post/3mfut6aaxak24https://bsky.app/profile/dharmabam.bsky.social/post/3mdpnobi6k22jMounting a wee experiment here https://www.northseapoets.com/events/sunday-morning-reading-circle-with-don-paterson to see if we can recreate the legendary druidic magic of Stones Barn reading circle (still time to book here https://www.tickettailor.com/events/forgottenlands/1404661 ) online. Three sessions starting in April. Sunday mornings, like church31 Jan 2026 10:54 +0000at://did:plc:zswmgfwkzxp537vsd7e2ihp6/app.bsky.feed.post/3mdpnobi6k22jhttps://bsky.app/profile/dharmabam.bsky.social/post/3mdnbq7pazc2cWonderful piece by Karen Solie over at the north sea poets place on reverie, deadlines and escalators … https://open.substack.com/pub/northseapoets/p/reverie-and-deadlines?r=yya9e&utm_medium=ios30 Jan 2026 12:15 +0000at://did:plc:zswmgfwkzxp537vsd7e2ihp6/app.bsky.feed.post/3mdnbq7pazc2chttps://bsky.app/profile/dharmabam.bsky.social/post/3mdaf5iv5yk2iIt’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 https://northseapoets.substack.com/p/the-burns-identity?r=yya9e&utm_medium=ios&triedRedirect=true25 Jan 2026 09:11 +0000at://did:plc:zswmgfwkzxp537vsd7e2ihp6/app.bsky.feed.post/3mdaf5iv5yk2ihttps://bsky.app/profile/dharmabam.bsky.social/post/3magqzew4jk2iOur 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 https://www.northseapoets.com/courses20 Dec 2025 17:44 +0000at://did:plc:zswmgfwkzxp537vsd7e2ihp6/app.bsky.feed.post/3magqzew4jk2ihttps://bsky.app/profile/dharmabam.bsky.social/post/3m7wssx7tx22hThe 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 https://www.northseapoets.com/courses14 Dec 2025 09:34 +0000at://did:plc:zswmgfwkzxp537vsd7e2ihp6/app.bsky.feed.post/3m7wssx7tx22hhttps://bsky.app/profile/dharmabam.bsky.social/post/3m7rupg6tyk2othere’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 https://www.northseapoets.com/events-112 Dec 2025 10:24 +0000at://did:plc:zswmgfwkzxp537vsd7e2ihp6/app.bsky.feed.post/3m7rupg6tyk2ohttps://bsky.app/profile/dharmabam.bsky.social/post/3m6pbcbbuds2xessay on Heaney over at the northseapoets substack … https://open.substack.com/pub/northseapoets/p/heaney-on-the-underground?r=yya9e&utm_medium=ios28 Nov 2025 16:06 +0000at://did:plc:zswmgfwkzxp537vsd7e2ihp6/app.bsky.feed.post/3m6pbcbbuds2xhttps://bsky.app/profile/dharmabam.bsky.social/post/3m67g2nngrc2pJust 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 https://www.northseapoets.com/events-122 Nov 2025 08:49 +0000at://did:plc:zswmgfwkzxp537vsd7e2ihp6/app.bsky.feed.post/3m67g2nngrc2phttps://bsky.app/profile/dharmabam.bsky.social/post/3m3wwkswxds23just posted some fluff on fluff, deadlines and how to kiss on the radio https://open.substack.com/pub/northseapoets/p/north-sea-line-caught-2-kissing-on?r=yya9e24 Oct 2025 13:00 +0000at://did:plc:zswmgfwkzxp537vsd7e2ihp6/app.bsky.feed.post/3m3wwkswxds23https://bsky.app/profile/dharmabam.bsky.social/post/3m3eutxaypk26Lesley Harrison on excellent form, writing about bird-names, birdsong and poetry over at the northseapoets place: https://open.substack.com/pub/northseapoets/p/kwink?r=yya9e&utm_medium=ios17 Oct 2025 08:41 +0000at://did:plc:zswmgfwkzxp537vsd7e2ihp6/app.bsky.feed.post/3m3eutxaypk26https://bsky.app/profile/dharmabam.bsky.social/post/3m2vw6o4ick2eNew 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 https://www.northseapoets.com/events-111 Oct 2025 09:55 +0000at://did:plc:zswmgfwkzxp537vsd7e2ihp6/app.bsky.feed.post/3m2vw6o4ick2ehttps://bsky.app/profile/dharmabam.bsky.social/post/3m2cbfitt4c2xWrote something on Harrison & class. Also scansion. But remember the first rule of Foot Club. https://open.substack.com/pub/northseapoets/p/tony-harrisons-study?r=yya9e&utm_medium=ios03 Oct 2025 14:23 +0000at://did:plc:zswmgfwkzxp537vsd7e2ihp6/app.bsky.feed.post/3m2cbfitt4c2xhttps://bsky.app/profile/dharmabam.bsky.social/post/3lzspz6iq422v27 Sep 2025 10:01 +0000at://did:plc:zswmgfwkzxp537vsd7e2ihp6/app.bsky.feed.post/3lzspz6iq422vhttps://bsky.app/profile/dharmabam.bsky.social/post/3lynhtgscwk2cme banging on about Woodman, Plath and spirit photography … https://open.substack.com/pub/northseapoets/p/on-francesca-woodman-plath-and-spirit?r=yya9e&utm_medium=ios12 Sep 2025 14:27 +0000at://did:plc:zswmgfwkzxp537vsd7e2ihp6/app.bsky.feed.post/3lynhtgscwk2chttps://bsky.app/profile/dharmabam.bsky.social/post/3lxkdypsgoc2xGreat piece from Lesley Harrison on Inger Christensen and writing under the shadow of the Bomb … https://open.substack.com/pub/northseapoets/p/writing-the-last-word?r=yya9e29 Aug 2025 15:15 +0000at://did:plc:zswmgfwkzxp537vsd7e2ihp6/app.bsky.feed.post/3lxkdypsgoc2xhttps://bsky.app/profile/dharmabam.bsky.social/post/3lwxzlbag2k2zNiall C on winkles, animism, and a frequent topic of conversation round here – Jack Gilbert. https://substack.com/@northseapoets/note/p-171630447?r=yya9e&utm_medium=ios&utm_source=notes-share-action22 Aug 2025 08:20 +0000at://did:plc:zswmgfwkzxp537vsd7e2ihp6/app.bsky.feed.post/3lwxzlbag2k2zhttps://bsky.app/profile/dharmabam.bsky.social/post/3lwua2katls22Repost, now with added silence. Occurred to me belatedly that some folk did not read ‘great’ as ‘elder statespersons of international standing’ as per the author’s intentions, but ‘dead good’. I think we can still all agree there are plenty of those. open.substack.com/pub/northseapo… https://open.substack.com/pub/northseapo…20 Aug 2025 20:06 +0000at://did:plc:zswmgfwkzxp537vsd7e2ihp6/app.bsky.feed.post/3lwua2katls22https://bsky.app/profile/dharmabam.bsky.social/post/3lvd7z6bans2lJust posted a thing on misreadings, facepalms, iron, milk and spiders, and my most brutal encounter with Robert Frost yet … https://open.substack.com/pub/northseapoets/p/the-long-game?r=yya9e&utm_medium=ios01 Aug 2025 08:24 +0000at://did:plc:zswmgfwkzxp537vsd7e2ihp6/app.bsky.feed.post/3lvd7z6bans2lhttps://bsky.app/profile/dharmabam.bsky.social/post/3lurqjceifc2hWonderful piece by Karen Solie on Fanny Howe, over at the northseapoets place … https://open.substack.com/pub/northseapoets/p/what-did-you-see?r=yya9e&utm_medium=ios25 Jul 2025 09:32 +0000at://did:plc:zswmgfwkzxp537vsd7e2ihp6/app.bsky.feed.post/3lurqjceifc2hhttps://bsky.app/profile/dharmabam.bsky.social/post/3lupdgzgr5c2tThere’s still time to join me in some rather strange poetic territory this saturday morning … https://www.northseapoets.com/events/the-rhyme-of-things-a-new-approach-to-metaphor-with-don-paterson24 Jul 2025 10:33 +0000at://did:plc:zswmgfwkzxp537vsd7e2ihp6/app.bsky.feed.post/3lupdgzgr5c2t