Lisa Brockwell
@lisabrockwell.bsky.social
Writer, poodle fancier, Australian in Scotland. Author of Earth Girls (2016) & The Round Ring (2021). Both Pitt Street Poetry.
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Introducing North Sea Poets. We run online masterclasses, workshops and webinars for poets and readers in the UK and Ireland (and for early birds and night owls planet-wide).
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Very proud to be part of this. Launching today for readers and writers. Loads of things at Australia-friendly times, promise! 😉
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Catch up on new writing from the #NorthSeaPoets 🌊
The Private Worlds of Women – Lisa Brockwell on the immodesty of Paula Rego
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The Private Worlds of Women – Lisa Brockwell on the immodesty of Paula Rego
Read the post: buff.ly/7MGhBvN
#AmReading #PoetrySky
September 11, 2026 at 7:01 PM
Catch up on new writing from the #NorthSeaPoets 🌊
The Private Worlds of Women – Lisa Brockwell on the immodesty of Paula Rego
Read the post: buff.ly/7MGhBvN
#AmReading #PoetrySky
The Private Worlds of Women – Lisa Brockwell on the immodesty of Paula Rego
Read the post: buff.ly/7MGhBvN
#AmReading #PoetrySky
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At dawn, my feathers bright with blood
my head a fiery crown
I rose, and with a shriek took wing
above the blazing town
‘Phoenix’, a poem by Don Paterson.
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my head a fiery crown
I rose, and with a shriek took wing
above the blazing town
‘Phoenix’, a poem by Don Paterson.
www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v4...
Don Paterson · Poem: ‘Phoenix’
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March 8, 2026 at 11:11 AM
At dawn, my feathers bright with blood
my head a fiery crown
I rose, and with a shriek took wing
above the blazing town
‘Phoenix’, a poem by Don Paterson.
www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v4...
my head a fiery crown
I rose, and with a shriek took wing
above the blazing town
‘Phoenix’, a poem by Don Paterson.
www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v4...
It’s been a year of @northseapoets.bsky.social already! Hope to see you at a webinar or workshop soon.
New post 📰
A Year of North Sea Poets – that went quick
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A Year of North Sea Poets – that went quick
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March 11, 2026 at 8:05 PM
It’s been a year of @northseapoets.bsky.social already! Hope to see you at a webinar or workshop soon.
Wonderful news. A fabulous collection and five terrific collections before this one too.
January 19, 2026 at 10:50 PM
Wonderful news. A fabulous collection and five terrific collections before this one too.
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Writing With: Beasts, Work, Windows, Mirrors, Music, Jack Gilbert and Mis-placed things, our North Sea Poets 2026 spring course is now available. For all details, and to book, please click below.
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Courses | North Sea Poets
Want to learn creative poetry techniques from the best? Explore our upcoming courses.
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December 14, 2025 at 9:47 AM
Writing With: Beasts, Work, Windows, Mirrors, Music, Jack Gilbert and Mis-placed things, our North Sea Poets 2026 spring course is now available. For all details, and to book, please click below.
www.northseapoets.com/courses
www.northseapoets.com/courses
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Join Pulitzer Prize-winning poet Paul Muldoon, as well as special guests Alice Oswald and Don Paterson, as they read from a new anthology celebrating the sonnet. Tickets are available now.
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thecoronettheatre.com/whats-on/poetry-club-paul-muldoon-and-special-guests/
Poetry Club: Paul Muldoon & Special Guests – The Coronet Theatre
The Sonnet – A celebration, Featuring Alice Oswald and Don Paterson Join Pulitzer Prize-winning poet Paul Muldoon, as well as special guests Alice Oswald...
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August 1, 2025 at 4:00 PM
Join Pulitzer Prize-winning poet Paul Muldoon, as well as special guests Alice Oswald and Don Paterson, as they read from a new anthology celebrating the sonnet. Tickets are available now.
thecoronettheatre.com/whats-on/poetry-club-paul-muldoon-and-special-guests/
thecoronettheatre.com/whats-on/poetry-club-paul-muldoon-and-special-guests/
My new piece on Bishop, her Crusoe poem & the perversity of nostalgia. Delighted to be teaching Bishop on our autumn @northseapoets.bsky.social course.
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Each Nick and Scratch by Heart: Elizabeth Bishop’s Island Industries
Lisa Brockwell on the perversity of nostalgia
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July 11, 2025 at 10:29 AM
My new piece on Bishop, her Crusoe poem & the perversity of nostalgia. Delighted to be teaching Bishop on our autumn @northseapoets.bsky.social course.
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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
What Are We, And Where Are We Going?
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. …
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May 26, 2025 at 9:31 AM
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
@dharmabam.bsky.social with a new class on a radically different approach to metaphor. These tickets will go fast.
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.
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The Rhyme of Things: a new approach to metaphor with Don Paterson | North Sea Poets
In this class, Don Paterson will explore a radically different approach to poetic metaphor, one which can unite image, detail and tone through deep and sometimes hidden connection.
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May 17, 2025 at 12:00 PM
@dharmabam.bsky.social with a new class on a radically different approach to metaphor. These tickets will go fast.
“Moments of certainty…but these come adrift or are eroded as the haar slips in. The poem ends with his neighbour still searching the sea for her missing husband. Fog – symbol of loss or removal, of silence and hiatus“
Lesley Harrison @northseapoets.bsky.social
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Lesley Harrison @northseapoets.bsky.social
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THE FOG HOUSE
Lesley Harrison on foggy retreats and making a home in the shadows
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May 16, 2025 at 4:12 PM
“Moments of certainty…but these come adrift or are eroded as the haar slips in. The poem ends with his neighbour still searching the sea for her missing husband. Fog – symbol of loss or removal, of silence and hiatus“
Lesley Harrison @northseapoets.bsky.social
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Lesley Harrison @northseapoets.bsky.social
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Don’t miss out! Couple of tickets left for this workshop with the brilliant @kathleenjamie.bsky.social
May 11, 2025 at 11:42 AM
Don’t miss out! Couple of tickets left for this workshop with the brilliant @kathleenjamie.bsky.social
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Hi folks - still tripping over your own feet? last chance to book in for what I hope will be a fun one on friday - clocks, parrots, chet baker and more alternate stress than you can shake a stick at
www.northseapoets.com/events/two-d...
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Two Dances – An Intro to Metre with Don Paterson | North Sea Poets
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.
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April 28, 2025 at 7:55 AM
Hi folks - still tripping over your own feet? last chance to book in for what I hope will be a fun one on friday - clocks, parrots, chet baker and more alternate stress than you can shake a stick at
www.northseapoets.com/events/two-d...
www.northseapoets.com/events/two-d...
Don’t miss out on the first webinar from @dharmabam.bsky.social on the @northseapoets.bsky.social platform. This Friday at an Australia-friendly time. Kilt & beard not included.
Two Dances – An Intro to Metre with @dharmabam.bsky.social is coming up on 2nd May!
Last chance to book tickets for this webinar on the two basic templates of metre. Learn how you can make your poetry more expressive, rhythmic and memorable.
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#NorthSeaPoets #PoetrySky
Last chance to book tickets for this webinar on the two basic templates of metre. Learn how you can make your poetry more expressive, rhythmic and memorable.
🎟️ buff.ly/8kKo13W
#NorthSeaPoets #PoetrySky
April 26, 2025 at 3:06 PM
Don’t miss out on the first webinar from @dharmabam.bsky.social on the @northseapoets.bsky.social platform. This Friday at an Australia-friendly time. Kilt & beard not included.
“To be rooted is perhaps the most important and least recognised need of the human soul.” Simone Weil quoted in a beautiful piece by Karen Solie on the @northseapoets.bsky.social substack about beech trees, CD Wright & bearing witness.
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A Cloud of Witnesses
Karen Solie encounters C.D. Wright among the beeches
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April 18, 2025 at 10:16 AM
“To be rooted is perhaps the most important and least recognised need of the human soul.” Simone Weil quoted in a beautiful piece by Karen Solie on the @northseapoets.bsky.social substack about beech trees, CD Wright & bearing witness.
open.substack.com/pub/northsea...
open.substack.com/pub/northsea...
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June’s a way off, but if you want to get in there early – I’ve posted a class at northseapoets I thought might be fun. Basically a whistlestop tour of some of my favourite ‘stuck poet’ resources
www.northseapoets.com/events/how-t...
www.northseapoets.com/events/how-t...
How to Furnish the Cave of Making with Don Paterson | North Sea Poets
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.
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April 10, 2025 at 1:31 PM
June’s a way off, but if you want to get in there early – I’ve posted a class at northseapoets I thought might be fun. Basically a whistlestop tour of some of my favourite ‘stuck poet’ resources
www.northseapoets.com/events/how-t...
www.northseapoets.com/events/how-t...
Brilliant piece by Don Paterson @North Sea Poets on AI, the soul and the big (and, frankly, long overdue) reset coming for our art form.
Just posted a p1 of a longish two-parter on AI and the future of literature on the northseapoets substack. TL;DR: it’s time to start panicking. But good may come of it.
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Will AI Destroy Literature or Save It? Part I
Don Paterson contemplates the Terminator in the Augean stables
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April 4, 2025 at 11:08 AM
Brilliant piece by Don Paterson @North Sea Poets on AI, the soul and the big (and, frankly, long overdue) reset coming for our art form.
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‘Fower Pessoas is a revelation, and shows just how strong Scots poetry can be. … What is exceptional is that Bramwell fashions distinct Scots for Pessoa’s different heteronyms. The chutzpah is amazing.’
Stuart Kelly on brambrella.bsky.social, for @scotsman.com: www.scotsman.com/arts-and-cul...
Stuart Kelly on brambrella.bsky.social, for @scotsman.com: www.scotsman.com/arts-and-cul...
Poetry round-up: Colin Bramwell | Charles Lang | Andrés Ordorica | Erica McAlpine
Stuart Kelly reviews four recent poetry releases, starting with Colin Bramwell’s “trans-culturations” of the work of Fernando Pessoa
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April 3, 2025 at 2:30 PM
‘Fower Pessoas is a revelation, and shows just how strong Scots poetry can be. … What is exceptional is that Bramwell fashions distinct Scots for Pessoa’s different heteronyms. The chutzpah is amazing.’
Stuart Kelly on brambrella.bsky.social, for @scotsman.com: www.scotsman.com/arts-and-cul...
Stuart Kelly on brambrella.bsky.social, for @scotsman.com: www.scotsman.com/arts-and-cul...
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if anyone in edinburgh fancies some JAZZ I’m playing with Graeme Stephen at the Scottish Arts Club this friday. apparently having just been informed of the death of a close relative
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Don Paterson & Graeme Stephen - Modern Jazz Concert
The first of the Spring Series of Scottish Arts Trust Concerts features Don Paterson & Graeme Stephen in Modern Jazz Guitar Concert
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April 1, 2025 at 3:24 PM
if anyone in edinburgh fancies some JAZZ I’m playing with Graeme Stephen at the Scottish Arts Club this friday. apparently having just been informed of the death of a close relative
www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/don-paters...
www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/don-paters...
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Fabulous new poem from @andrewjamesneilson.bsky.social in the latest @poetrylondon.bsky.social. Been thinking about it all morning
It's been a very busy week at work, and we launched an issue of @badlilies.bsky.social too, but I'm grateful to appear in braw company in the new @poetrylondon.bsky.social Looking forward to the launch event this Sunday evening. 🙏
March 23, 2025 at 9:36 AM
Fabulous new poem from @andrewjamesneilson.bsky.social in the latest @poetrylondon.bsky.social. Been thinking about it all morning
So much to love in this new @poetrylondon.bsky.social
This beautiful poem by Katharine Towers in the latest @poetrylondon.bsky.social is just stunning.
March 23, 2025 at 9:35 AM
So much to love in this new @poetrylondon.bsky.social
@aiannucci.bsky.social & @helenlewis.bsky.social Don Paterson on poetry & public health messaging might be of interest re: Strong Message Here
Just posted a not *entirely serious thing on poetry and public health messaging over at the northseapoets substack
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The Poem as Public Health Message: on Mnemonics, Kelpies and the Banned Word List
Don Paterson’s alter ego sounds off on bad acronyms
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March 22, 2025 at 7:51 AM
@aiannucci.bsky.social & @helenlewis.bsky.social Don Paterson on poetry & public health messaging might be of interest re: Strong Message Here
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I wrote this in July 2016
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March 22, 2025 at 5:52 AM
I wrote this in July 2016
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