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The Sonnet – A celebration, Featuring Alice Oswald and Don Paterson Join Pulitzer Prize-winning poet Paul Muldoon, as well as special guests Alice Oswald...

Lisa Brockwell on the perversity of nostalgia

Don Paterson on the joy & the horror of poetry anthologies: “Anthologies liberate the reader….(allowing)…a sense of serendipitous discovery, of personal encounter, with the usual intermediaries remov...

Don Paterson is a celebrated Scottish poet, writer and musician. The essay below comes from a new anthology of Scottish writers called Irish Pages: Scotland, and is reproduced with his permission. …

Lesley Harrison on foggy retreats and making a home in the shadows

On this month's favourite books

A two-hour webinar showing how both the four-stress line and iambic pentameter can work as the engine of our poetry, and strengthen the expressivity, rhythm and memorability of the poetic line.

Karen Solie encounters C.D. Wright among the beeches

Don Paterson will run a 2-hour webinar on all the secret tools, resources and software that poets can draw on, whether we're stuck for an idea, a word or a line.

Stuart Kelly reviews four recent poetry releases, starting with Colin Bramwell’s “trans-culturations” of the work of Fernando Pessoa

The first of the Spring Series of Scottish Arts Trust Concerts features Don Paterson & Graeme Stephen in Modern Jazz Guitar Concert

North Sea Poetry Weekly Bulletin

Don Paterson’s alter ego sounds off on bad acronyms

Lisa Brockwell on a book that changes how we think of poetry

East African leaders and Saudi royals are among those profiting off a lucrative, deadly trade in domestic workers.

Lovely piece on fatherhood and why excellence is the only thing worth pursuing in art. From Niall Campbell on the North Sea Poets platform.

Posting the piece online, OpenAI’s Sam Altman said this is the first time he has been “really struck” by AI writing

Discover poetry masterclasses, seminars and explorations of the writing life with the North Sea Poets.

Tuesday night showed the core truth of Trump. And of liberal democratic collapse.

Failing to redress the issues facing young men will push them further towards the far right

A profile from 1972 of celebrated Scottish poet Hugh MacDiarmid.