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We are the lead agency in Scotland for National Poetry Day. From 1999, NPD has been themed by Forward Arts Foundation; this year’s theme was ‘change’.
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Charles Hamilton Sorley: It is Easy to be Dead
As a new production of a play about the Scottish war poet Charles Hamilton Sorley is staged, our latest blog takes a look at it and Neu! Reekie's involvement. ...More
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