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The Callum MacDonald Award 2019
The annual Callum Macdonald Memorial Award (CMMA) is for the publisher of an outstanding example of pamphlet poetry published during the previous year. ...More
Mach 1: Poetry Commission at Edinburgh Park
An opportunity has arisen for a Scotland-based poet to take up a commission at one of the country’s most exciting new buildings. ...More
A Poet’s Survival Guide to the Edinburgh Fringe 2019
RJ Arkhipov provides an inside guide for poets on how to survive the Edinburgh Fringe. ...More
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'Rise like Lions after slumber
In unvanquishable number,
Shake your chains to earth like dew
Which in sleep had fallen on you-
Ye are many - they are few.’
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