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Guest curators commission original poems on the subject of 'Vision' to expand the SPL's regional reach.Poems for Nurses and Midwives
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The Callum MacDonald Award 2021
The Callum Macdonald Memorial Award (CMMA), for the publisher of an outstanding pamphlet, is open for business again. Find out more. ...More
Blood, Pride and RJ Arkhipov
As Pride Month 2021 comes to a close, Toni Velikova from the Scottish Poetry Library sat down with RJ Arkhipov to discuss the poetry of blood and his journey to today. ...More
Finding Your Voice
We ran a series of creative writing workshops with the EIS for teachers. The workshop's tutor Jenny Lindsay writes about it and the students share poems. ...More
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