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We are a collective of poets with national and international reputations, all based near the east coast of Scotland. We believe deeply in the importance of our artform to the culture, and we seek to foster the ideals of excellence as practitioners, curiosity as readers, and generosity as teachers. We also believe in the equal importance of spiritual, literary, practical and technical approaches to the making of a poem.
Upcoming Events & Courses
Multiple DatesTue 22 AprOnline WorkshopA series of seven classes, each one delivered weekly by a different member of North Sea Poets, with a Q&A at the end of each session.
Fri 02 MayWebinarA 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.
Fri 09 MayWebinarA 90-minute webinar for those looking to prepare a pamphlet for publication.
Thu 15 MayOnline WorkshopThis 90-minute reading session will explore recent eco-poetry, and ask how poets can pay radical attention to non-humans – or even speak on their behalf.
Fri 06 JunWebinarA 90-minute webinar for those looking to prepare a first collection for publication.- Thu 12 JunOnline WorkshopA follow on from 'Speaking To, Speaking As', this 90-minute guided meditation will offer ideas on how to write the natural world and further develop your own work.
Wed 18 JunWebinarDon 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.
Sat 21 JunOnline WorkshopThis two-hour seminar will introduce the key ideas in Margaret Magnus’s astonishing Gods of the Word, then suggest practical ways to bring these ideas into our practice.
Mon 23 JunOnline WorkshopHow do we make ourselves 'at home'? This 90-minute workshop explores the tenuous nature of belonging in poetries of place.
Sat 05 JulOnline WorkshopThis two-hour workshop will examine how different uses of the figurative – image, metaphor, and simile – express and create different experiences of time.
Tue 15 JulOnline WorkshopIn this immersive 90-minute workshop we'll use examples, discussions and quick-fire exercises to create new work, focussing on the inner weather of the poem.
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