Winter is coming, and with it, our Walking With Poets project is drawing to a close. Our blog gathers together short interviews with our WWP poets reading work inspired by their residencies.

During the Edinburgh Festival, the anonymous book sculptor gifted a number of bird book sculptures to various people - including us. The lyrebird sculpture we were given came with a proviso: we were only to hang on to it until we found it a new home that could help promote books and reading. So we held a competition....

A highlight of the SPL’s autumn events programme is A Random History of Scots Poetry and Song (November 21st, Edinburgh’s Voodoo Rooms), a cabaret uniting different generations of Scottish poets. Organiser and poet Alexander Hutchinson previews the event by looking back to an earlier era of readings….

Scotland’s National Poet knew the importance of marking Halloween with a party – and we at the Scottish Poetry Library are in full accord. On Thursday, 31 October, 6.30pm, we shall be celebrating All Hallow’s Eve with Fright Night! The SPL Halloween Poetry Party. The party is open to the public, living and undead. What can the children of the night who brave our revels expect?