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Our Waking Breath
A Poem-letter from Scotland to Ukraine. Curated by Scotland's Makar Kathleen Jamie from public submissions.Best Scottish Poems 2021
Our annual selection of outstanding poems written by Scottish poets and poets living in Scotland writing in English, Scots and Scottish GaelicA Woman’s A Woman
A special reworking by Scotland's Makar of Robert Burns’ poem for International Women’s Day, in support of the Disasters Emergency Committee’s Appeals in Ukraine and AfghanistanMeet the Roddy Lumsden Memorial mentees
Read four new poems by the new poets selected to be mentored by Niall Campbell.Kin Kennings: 25 words for '25
Stirling Makar Laura Fyfe has written a blog about putting poetry and literature into the heart of Stirling's bid for City of Culture 2025.Spiorad an àite / Spirit of Place
Spirit of Place is a journey of poetry, dance, film, music and language. A conversation between Ireland and Scotland following on the old routes of Saint Columba.Anonymous wis a wumman
Ashley Douglas researched the absences and erasure of women’s voices from the early times of published poetry in Scotland. Ashley also looked at the misattribution and denial of same-sex women’s writing.Burns Night: The Trysting Thorns
Creative responses by women to the life and work of Robert BurnsDeveloping sensory poetry activity
We partnered with disability support charity Capability Scotland to commission a storyteller and a poet to produce sensory poetry workshopsMakar helps launch the Year of Stories
Kathleen Jamie produced a film to support the launch of Scotland's Year of StoriesBlack poets respond to climate change
We have commissioned new poetry from Black women poets in partnership with Africa in Motion Film Festival and Obsidian Foundation.The People of Scotland's Nature Poem
Our national Makar has curated three new collective nature poems, 'The Life-breath Songs'What the Clyde said, after COP26
Kathleen Jamie, Scotland's Makar, responds with a new poem to the COP26 Glasgow Climate Change Conference
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For a’ that, an’ a’ that,
Our toils obscure, an’ a’ that;
The rank is but the guinea’s stamp;
The woman’s the gowd for a’ that,
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