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Seven Makar-ish Things

A Makarship must give you time to write, it should suggest how to turn that into a performance or a publication, and, ideally, fund it. Such a set-up understands that the writer, their community, heritage, and artistic peers are all equals.
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Slurrrping Chicken Soup and Meditative Minestrone

Every so often one of our wonderful volunteers and placement students will assemble a new display to greet you as you enter the library. Antonietta, a Strathclyde University student on placement with us, did so recently, and tell us about the latest display Souper substitutes The taste of my mum’s chicken soup is something embedded […]
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Seven Makar-ish Things

19 February 2022
A Makarship must give you time to write, it should suggest how to turn that into a performance or a publication, and, ideally, fund it. Such a set-up understands that the writer, their community, heritage, and artistic peers are all equals.
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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.
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The Thursday Post: National Poetry Day 2017

31 August 2017
Freedom! What does that word mean to you? National Poetry Day (Thursday, 28 September) has, this year, chosen ‘freedom’ as its theme. Freedom means many things to many people. Freedom to dream, to think, to question; freedom to speak,...
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BBC Scotland’s new Poet in Residence revealed

25 July 2017
Today, BBC Scotland, in association with the Scottish Poetry Library, announces the name of its second Poet in Residence. This afternoon, The Janice Forsyth Show revealed Stuart A. Paterson is to succeed Rachel McCrum, who became the first BBC...
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National Poetry Day

The Thursday Post: National Poetry Day 2016

5 October 2016
Happy National Poetry Day! Like Christmas, it comes but once a year, but unlike Christmas it won’t make you fat or bankrupt. Yes, it’s the day when everyone in Britain, from prince to pauper, thanks the gods of poetry...
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The Thursday Post: National Poetry Day

9 September 2016
Each year, National Poetry Day has a theme and for 2016, it’s ‘messages’. Actually, NPD is about sending a message every year – even if it’s the one moment in the year that you might casually put out your...
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The Thursday Post: Shining a light on National Poetry Day

30 September 2015
Light My Path by Faith Goble, under a Creative Commons licence
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The Thursday Post: First Line Films

20 August 2015
FILMMAKING! by chrisjtse, under a Creative Commons licence
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