Is it really four years since Glasgow’s Commonwealth Games? Our latest blog remembers the great poetry projects we were involved in to mark the Glasgow Games and their legacy today.

On Saturday, 24 March, 2pm, the young women of the Youth Community Support Agency's group, Clt Alt Del, will be joined by their tutors, poet Marjorie Gill and singer songwriter Heir of the Cursed, to share work generated in a project supported by the SPL. It's terribly important to support these young women, for the reasons outlined by Clare McBrien, who is YCSA's Programme Lead in our blog.

As we gear up to work on a new edition of Tools of the Trade, we find the anthology's focus on how poetry can work with medicine is gaining traction elsewhere.

Late last year, we were approached by Iona Beange from the University of Edinburgh’s Centre of Cognitive Ageing and Cognitive Epidemiology, to support a community poetry group in their response to Stella Chan’s research, Project Soothe. Catherine Simpson, one of the participants, talks about her experience and how it led to the adoption of a new if unconventional family motto.