Blog
New Poetry, New Challenges: Digitising the SPL’s Archives
25 February 2019
Nell Widger is currently researching digitization methods for the Library's special collections. Here she blogs about the challenges.The Thursday Post: The latest issue of the Poetry Reader is here
14 February 2019
The latest issue of the Poetry Reader has arrived. Find out what delights it contains in our blog.The Thursday Post: Women and the Small Press
7 February 2019
Throughout February and March, the Library is hosting an exhibition, Women and the Small Press, which features items taken from the Library’s small press and pamphlet archive. Learn more in our blog.The Thursday Post: Nora Gomringer
31 January 2019
We’re delighted that Nora Gomringer will be performing at the Library on Saturday, 16 February. Learn more about this fantastic Swiss-German poet in our blog.The Thursday Post: Best of the Best Scottish Poems is Coming
17 January 2019
Next Friday, on Burns Night, we will launch a new online anthology, available to read on our website for free: The Best of the Best Scottish Poems. What’s more, it has been edited by journalist and broadcaster James NaughtieThe Thursday Post: Our New Website
13 December 2018
We've launched a new website. Discover why and what the website can now do for you it couldn't previously.Gerda Stevenson pays tribute to Margaret Tait at 100
9 November 2018
To mark Margaret Tait's centenary this weekend, Gerda Stevenson reads three poems by Tait.Charles Hamilton Sorley: It is Easy to be Dead
23 October 2018
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.The Thursday Post: Tony Harrison Film Poem Season
18 October 2018
One of the UK’s leading poets and dramatists Tony Harrison comes to Edinburgh ahead of a season of his rarely shown ‘film poems’ at Edinburgh Filmhouse. We have all the details in our latest blog.The Thursday Post: National Poetry Day 2018
12 October 2018
‘Change,’ the late, great Alastair Reid wrote in his poem ‘The Spiral’, ‘change is where I live.’ As do we all during these tumultuous times, whether we wish it or not. Some of the most incisive thoughts on and resonant descriptions...WHALE Arts
12 October 2018
WHALE Arts poetry group meets twice a month to write and share poetry and prose. It’s free to attend and WHALE provides refreshments. It’s a friendly, social and supportive group and you don’t need any experience to...The Thursday Post: To Learn the Future
12 October 2018
Next week sees the publication of To Learn the Future: Poems for Teachers, a pocket-sized book of poems that will be a gift from the education profession to all newly-qualified teachers in Scotland in 2018 and 2019. The book offers...