Kathleen Jamie on ‘How to write a poem for a report’ (Spoiler: Contains brand new poem by our Makar!)
3 April 2023
Artists are the bottom of the heap. So when you’ve got a chance , three minutes in the room with them, you’ve got to make the point that artists are often forgotten about,...Utøya Thereafter
2 March 2023
Over the space of four and a half years, and through the pandemic, Norwegian poet Endre Ruset has been working with UK poet Harry Man to write poems in memory of those who were killed during the tragic events...Seamus Heaney and the Art Speech of Robert Burns
24 January 2023
SPL Comms Manager Kevin Williamson on Heaney on Burns.Poetry Unravelled
2 November 2022
What do Keanu Reeves, John Lennon, Cher and Kiera Knightley have in common? Read on to find out.Push the Boat Out poetry festival 2022
11 October 2022
Diverse, eclectic, entertaining and challenging - contemporary poetry is in pretty great shape. Push the Boat Out is a cross-genre explosion of poetry, hip hop, and spoken word; the point where artforms from spoken word, live music, hip hop,...Dublin to Edinburgh poetry exchange
3 October 2022
Watch Irish and Scottish young people perform poems they wrote together during a week-long exchange workshop.Happy 1st birthday Kathleen Jamie
19 August 2022
A short film of Kathleen Jamie reflecting on her first year as Makar.William Neill
11 August 2022
We are marking a hundred years since the birth of he poet William Neill, with a special display, including a selection of items from our collection.
Iona Lee in the Faroe Islands
10 October 2023
We are an island ourselves, of course, and one that is becoming increasingly insular. We forget, at our peril, just how close we are to other cultures, and just how close those cultures are to ours.
The Bonniest Company: Makar’s Library Tour
4 October 2023
The Makar’s Tour starts on National Poetry Day (October 5) and first stop will be Bettyhill Library in Sutherland.
Gerry Loose in Caracas
21 September 2023
In Caracas, many of the readings were in the magnificent Teatro Bolívar, often to more than a thousand people.
Poetry As The Gift Of Attention
21 August 2023
Poetry bears witness – not just to the beautiful moments in life, but also to the inarticulable pains of being alive, of losing, of never having.
Kenneth White Remembered
16 August 2023
Geopoetics is strictly of this world. Its background lies neither in myth, metaphysics, or religion. It is out to begin again, from the ground up. Taking geology as ground-level, it is a new way of being human and of living a...
