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Pass the Mic

Hosted by Vic Galloway. Pass the Mic is a virtual ceilidh - a joyous, collective provoking first foot for 2021. Join us for an hour of music and poetry.

Burns Week

Earlier this week, we shared via social media three videos featuring readings of Robert Burns' poetry. We've collected them in one place.

Sheena Blackhall and James Robertson read children’s poems in Scots

We invited James Robertson and Sheena Blackhall, two of Scotland’s leading proponents of Scots language, to select and share their favourite children’s poems that they think young people and teachers would enjoy as much as they do.

Annual General Meeting 2020

How we plan to hold our AGM during the pandemic.

Joy Hendry wins SPL’s inaugural Outstanding Contribution to Poetry in Scotland Award

The Scottish Poetry Library is launching a new literary prize, a biennial Outstanding Contribution to Scottish Poetry award. The first winner is Joy Hendry, the editor of influential magazine Chapman and a poet in her own right.

Scottish Poetry Library welcomes raft of poets into its Online Guide

To mark St Andrews Day, the Scottish Poetry Library is adding 14 new names to its Online Guide to Scottish Poets, improving its representation of poets writing in Scots and Gaelic.

Inside the Scottish Poetry Library: The Movie

Hosted by Saltire Prize-winning poet Janette Ayachi, our new film takes you by the hand as we stop off to look at the SPL's history – and to consider its future.

Giving Sorrow Words

Lapidus Scotland in association with the Scottish Poetry Library is running Giving Sorrow Words: Creative Words for Health & Wellbeing, a series of three short writing sessions led by Lapidus Scotland facilitators Valerie Gillies, the former Edinburgh Makar, and...

Vision On with John Hegley, Padraig Mac Aoidh and more

This year's National Poetry Day's theme was 'vision', and in that spirit we're presenting in one handy blog all the films we commissioned or were involved in to mark NPD.

Edwin and Me

We're delighted to share a short extract from Hamish Whyte's memoir of his friendship with Edwin Morgan, Morgan & Me.

National Poetry Day 2020 at the SPL

National Poetry Day will take place next week on Thursday 1 October. From next Thursday onwards, from 10am, you'll be able to watch a film we made with the irrepressible John Hegley.

Bàrd, File, Bardd

The literary and arts organisations Cultúrlann McAdam Ó Fiaich, Scottish Poetry Library and Literature Wales have launched a new digital poetry collaboration Bàrd, File, Bardd.