Over 70 poets, performers, artists and academics will gather in Glasgow this October for Outside-in / Inside-out, Scotland’s newest poetry festival. Find out more in a blog written by poet Colin Herd.

One of the treasures of the SPL’s website is our Poets A to Z section. Here you will find a rich selection of sketches of Scottish poets’ lives, plus examples of their work. In addition to the poets you’d expect our website to host, we have biographies of poets you might not know but are well worth finding out more about. We've just added six more. Learn more about the A to Z in our latest blog.

We are delighted to be taking part in the Edinburgh Art Festival programme again this year. We are drawing on our special collections to create a display that explores the connections between art and poetry that began in the 1950s and 1960s, looking at the Concrete Poetry movement in particular. Our blog has more details.

During the First World War, the Admiralty in Britain tried a remarkable experiment with a form of camouflage that made ships more, not less, visible. Co-commissioned by Edinburgh Art Festival and 14-18 NOW, the Every Woman project remembers and celebrates these 'dazzle ships'. As part of the project, female poets wrote poems responding to a ship decorated by Turner Prize-nominated artist Ciara Phillips. Marjorie Lotfi Gill, the collection's editor, blogs about it for the SPL.