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Blood, Pride and RJ Arkhipov

As Pride Month 2021 comes to a close, Toni Velikova from the Scottish Poetry Library sat down with RJ Arkhipov to discuss the poetry of blood and his journey to today.

Finding Your Voice

We ran a series of creative writing workshops with the EIS for teachers. The workshop's tutor Jenny Lindsay writes about it and the students share poems.

It’s Coming (to Our) Home

The SPL will be building up to each of Scotland’s Euro 2020 group fixtures at this summer’s tournament with three special LIVE poetry gigs that you can watch online.

Wigtown Poetry Prize – A History

Hugh McMillan chronicles the history of the Wigtown Poetry Prize.

To Mind Your Life: Poems for Nurses and Midwives

Today, on International Nurses Day, we're launching To Mind Your Life: Poems for Nurses and Midwives. A gift from the nursing and midwifery profession to its newest members, the pocket-sized book being given to 3000 nurses and midwives graduating...

Remembering Brian Johnstone

The Scottish Poetry Library is sad to learn of the death of Brian Johnstone, poet and friend of the SPL.

Care Experienced History Month

We mark Care Experienced History Month with poems written to mark it.

Become a Poetry Ambassador for the SPL

The SPL invites expressions of interest for this year's cohort of our Poetry Ambassadors programme.

Return to Form

Interested in exploring poetic form? Check out the recent Return to Form project from I Am Loud Productions!

SPL AGM 2020: OUTCOMES

Outcomes of the recent SPL AGM.

A Tour of the Scottish Poetry Library in Gaelic

We've recorded a tour of the Library for our Gaelic-speaking audiences. Features Alison Lang, Dolina MacLennan, Martin MacIntyre and Marcas Mac an Tuairneir.

Giving Sorrow Words – and Sound

Poets Larry Butler and former Edinburgh Makar Valerie Gillies read poems about grief as part of a special podcast.