Seven Makar-ish Things
19 February 2022
A Makarship must give you time to write, it should suggest how to turn that into a performance or a publication, and, ideally, fund it. Such a set-up understands that the writer, their community, heritage, and artistic peers are all equals.
Collective poem created for Stirling City of Culture bid
2 February 2022
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.Address to an Algorithm
25 January 2022
The Scottish Poetry Library was invited to collaborate on a project for the UK Pavilion at Expo 2020 Dubai. Led by artist and designer Es Devlin OBE, the object was to build and train an Artificial Intelligence algorithm to...Fur maist o history, anonymous wis a wumman
24 January 2022
Commentary on the ither anonymous poems is drookit in siblike dingiein or dingin doon o the obvious, whaurivver a wumman’s wirds are fund.“Our World, Our Future”
20 January 2022
I feel one of the key roles of being the city poet is to facilitate this flourishing and in the case of the future of the planet for us all at the beginning of a new year to go...Ceathramh
12 January 2022
Am bliadhna, tha sinn a' cur air bhog litir-naidheachd na Gàidhlig, a bheir a-steach gach rud co-cheangailte ri bàrdachd na Gàidhlig ann an Alba.
Interesting Times: A blog by Alan Spence, December 2021
22 December 2021
t was an opportunity to push myself. From writing mainly short pieces - haiku and tanka, the odd sonnet - I stretched to longer, narrative pieces, gravitating towards traditional forms.