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Coming Up: Happy New Book!
It’s exactly a week until the launch of The North End of the Possible and Rob A Mackenzie’s The Good News at the Scottish Poetry Library! If you’re within striking distance of Edinbu… more →
Website and blog of the Scottish poet Andrew Philip
The Queen of Sheba/Kathleen Jamie
wrote 2 weeks ago: The Scottish Poetry Library has a delightful programme of publishing a set of postcards every six mo … more →
An echo of childhood
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wrote 2 weeks ago: I have been inspired by the focus on poetry that I’ve seen out there in the blogosphere. I esp … more →
'If you don't like the weather...'
wrote 2 weeks ago: Reading at the SPL. Everyone jokes that, in Edinburgh, ‘if you don’t like the weather, w … more →
Coming Up: Happy New Book!
wrote 3 weeks ago: It’s exactly a week until the launch of The North End of the Possible and Rob A Mackenzie … more →
The time is right, the sun is shining and Walking With Poets is launched
wrote 3 weeks ago: Jennifer Williams, SPL Programme Manager here, sending you sunny, bright as blossoms wishes on this … more →
The cities within yourself
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wrote 4 weeks ago: This has been Turkish week, but also – and with a synchronicity that pleases me very much … more →
Best Scottish Poems 2012
wrote 1 month ago: Last year Robyn Marsack of the Scottish Poetry Library asked Louise Welsh and I to select our twenty … more →
mad march and invisible colours: could spring be far behind?
wrote 1 month ago: The closing lines of Shelley’s ‘Ode to the West Wind’, and a reflection that the p … more →
Rockets for Edwin Morgan, Scottish Poetry Library
wrote 1 month ago: If you find yourself in Edinburgh on 25th April, join us at the Scottish Poetry Library for a night … more →
Nether Springs and North Ends
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wrote 1 month ago: This week, I’m busy preparing for a poetry retreat I’m leading at Nether Springs, the mother h … more →
Spring Shoots – Readings in April & May
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wrote 1 month ago: After a long hibernation, the days are getting longer and several events in the diary are getting cl … more →
'Perhaps This Poem Has No End': Reel Iraq in Edinburgh
wrote 1 month ago: My guest blog for ArabLit on Saturday’s ‘Found in Translation’ Iraqi/Scottish poet … more →
Lifesaving Poems: Norman MacCaig's 'Aunt Julia'
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wrote 2 months ago: Norman MacCaig’s ‘Aunt Julia’ was the first poem I remember reading which made me … more →
Spring in Glasgow
wrote 2 months ago: The Scottish Poetry Library has put together a growing collection of downloadable poster, each featu … more →
Social History
wrote 2 months ago: Liz Lochhead is a poet I hadn’t heard of before I moved to Scotland, and I first found her collectio … more →
Ik ben een jonge Schotse dichter!
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wrote 2 months ago: I have been very excited about the translation of one of my poems into Dutch for the magazine Awater … more →
Terry Deary and Moray Council Make Me Sad
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wrote 3 months ago: It makes me so sad to read of ignorance like this and like this. I went to school. I even got to r … more →
Flying Economy to Byzantium
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wrote 3 months ago: As we sit, puzzling over how our shoelaces get tied, I’m awaiting the departure of a snow-dela … more →
SPL podcast: SJ Fowler and Tomasz Rozycki
wrote 4 months ago: “Ryan chatted with SJ Fowler and Tomasz Rozycki during the Sofia Poetics Festival with Literat … more →
