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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 Thursday Post: The Poetry Reader
12 October 2018
It’s here! The latest issue of our bi-annual newsletter the Poetry Reader has arrived in the Library. Issue number 23 is chock-a-block with news of our projects, interviews with poets and, of course, a poem or two. It’s free and can be picked...The Thursday Post: Welcome to Fright Night
11 October 2018
Halloween’s coming! Where better to celebrate it than at the Scottish Poetry Library? Our latest blog fills you in on the party we're holding on 31 October - and you're invited!The Thursday Post: Watch This Space
4 October 2018
Today, on National Poetry Day 2018, a ceremony took place to mark the tenth anniversary of the dedication of St Andrew Square as Edinburgh’s poetry garden, a city centre space for public enjoyment and quiet reflection. We recorded a...The Thursday Post on NPD: Dr Wha materialises
27 September 2018
With Jodie Whittaker, the first woman actor taking on the title role in its 55-year history, change is very much in the air – which chimes very nicely with National Poetry Day’s theme for 2018, which just happens to...The Thursday Post for NPD: Changing Room Poetry
20 September 2018
When we discovered that the theme for National Poetry Day 2018 is 'change', we came up with some ideas how to mark it. Find out how they came together in our 'transparent' new blog.The Thursday Post: Cyrano in Glasgow
30 August 2018
This autumn, Edwin Morgan’s wickedly funny translation of Cyrano de Bergerac will be revived in a new co-production by National Theatre of Scotland, Citizens Theatre and Royal Lyceum Theatre Edinburgh.The Thursday Post: Honouring Scotland’s WW1 Poets
31 July 2018
Today, the Scottish Poetry Library, in partnership with City of Edinburgh Council, Edinburgh Napier University, University of Aberdeen and Dignity Funerals, launches an online poll (click here to take part) to find a quote to be inscribed on a...