HeyJaredNorth Sea Poets
We are a group of experienced poets based near the Scottish east coast. We run online masterclasses, and post here on poetry, poetics and the writing life.
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- Sep 25, 2026
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Off the Cuff (opens the original)
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When I’m asked how I go about preparing for a reading, I say the poems are always the easy bit – because they’re done, they’re sorted, they just need read out. It’s the spontaneous stuff in between that I need to carefully rehearse.This is one reason why I’m dubious, to say the least, when someone shows me a poem they’ve just rattled off, still hot against the page; a poem they’re reluctant to revise in case they edit the immediacy out of it. I worry that this is less spontaneous expression that
North Sea Poets Weekend Bulletin – our New ‘Writing With ...’ course and new live events! (opens the original)
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The Northern Telegraph (opens the original)
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North Sea Poets Weekend Bulletin – New ‘Writing With ...’ course and other North Sea Poets news (opens the original)
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On the Importance of Doing a Bad Job (opens the original)
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