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This Saturday! Tickets are still available for Ten Key Shakespeare Sonnets – with Don Paterson on Saturday, 25th July, 11am-1pm BST. In this webinar, Don Paterson will explore ten key sonnets which give us insight into Shakespeare's astonishingly modern poetic mind – and what it can tell us about the poetry of our own age. Tickets are £35/£25. Get all the details here.

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Last week Don Paterson wrote about Shakespeare, the Sonnet and the uses of Scholarship:

Shakespeare, the Sonnet and the uses of Scholarship

Jul 18

I’ve been saying something of farewell – ok, an au revoir; never say never again – to the sonnet recently. A couple of years ago I switched my allegiance to a sixteen-line form, which has become my new ‘thoughtless default’ for shorter poems. It’s hardly one I can claim to have innovated, and its rules (‘it has sixteen lines and probably four quatrains,…

While a week earlier, Lesley Harrison reflected on the magic and mystery of erasure poetry in ‘weirden’:

And at the beginning of the month, we had an extract from Kathleen Jamie’s book Cairn:

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North Sea Poets Weekend Bulletin - Shakespeare’s Sonnets

Shakespeare, the Sonnet and the uses of Scholarship

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