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Stewart Conn

December 2019
Stewart Conn discusses how Edinburgh inspired his latest collection and his collaboration with illustrator John Knight.
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Tolu Agbelusi

October 2019
Tolu Agbelusi talks about building communities and empowering people through literature.
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Marcas Mac an Tuairneir, Hamish Henderson and The Darg

October 2019
To mark the centenary of Hamish Henderson's birth, Marcas Mac an Tuairneir, discusses his legacy.
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Penny Boxall

August 2019
Winner of the 2016 Edwin Morgan Poetry Award Penny Boxall discusses her collection Who Goes There?
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Niall O’Gallagher

July 2019
To coincide with Niall O'Gallagher's appointment as Bàrd Baile Ghlaschu, Glasgow's Gaelic poet laureate, we present an interview with O'Gallagher.
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Mary Jean Chan

June 2019
Mary Jean Chan discusses fencing, learning English, and queerness.
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Nina Bogin, Eoghan Walls and Beverley Bie Brahic

May 2019
A recording of a reading held in the Scottish Poetry Library featuring Nina Bogin, Eoghan Walls and Beverley Bie Brahic.
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Liz Berry

April 2019
Liz Berry talks about the lack of poetry that tells the truth about the experience of childbirth and rearing, the Black Country accent and pigeons.
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Fiona Moore

March 2019
Fiona Moore Moore discusses grief, dictators and Brexit.
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Ilyse Kusnetz and Brian Turner

March 2019
Brian Turner talks about his late wife Ilyse Kusnetz's life and work, including her love of Scotland and its poetry.
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Don Paterson on Aphorisms

January 2019
Don Paterson on the relationship between poetry and aphorisms, and why the English-speaking world doesn't have a strong tradition of aphorisms.
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Happy 100th Birthday, Muriel Spark! With Rob A Mackenzie and Louise Peterkin

December 2018
The editors of a new anthology paying tribute to Muriel Spark talk about Spark as a poet.
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