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Tha sinn toilichte a bhith a’ tòiseachadh le pròiseact bàrdachd ùr, a bheir cothrom do shianar bhàrd LGDTC+ obair a chruthachadh is a choileanadh le chèile. Stèidhte air ‘còmhraidhean cruthachail’, bidh bàird Gàidhlig na h-Alba ag obair le bàird Gàidhlig na h-Èireann gus bàrdachd fhada, dhà-chànanach a dhèanamh. Bheir am pròiseact cothrom dhaibh an cuid eòlais-bheatha a chur an cèill tro chànan is bàrdachd.
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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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Lúibíní

16 June 2022
Tha sinn toilichte a bhith a’ tòiseachadh le pròiseact bàrdachd ùr, a bheir cothrom do shianar bhàrd LGDTC+ obair a chruthachadh is a choileanadh le chèile. Stèidhte air ‘còmhraidhean cruthachail’, bidh bàird Gàidhlig na h-Alba ag obair le bàird...
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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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Meetup Groups in Edinburgh

21 February 2019
Find out more information about poetry groups that meet outside of the SPL
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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 Naughtie
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The 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.
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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: Best Scottish Poems 2017 is coming

18 April 2018
It's that time of year again, when we look back to look forward.
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The Thursday Post: Commonwealth Games Reunited

5 April 2018
No matter how swift Usain Bolt was on the track, he can’t compete with time itself. Is it really four years since Glasgow’s Commonwealth Games? Four years since the dancing teacakes of the opening ceremony?
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Clt Alt Del – ‘I feel safe, I feel heard. I feel helped’

7 March 2018
On Saturday, 24 March, 2pm, the young women of the Youth Community Support Agency's group, Clt Alt Del, will be joined by their tutors, poet Marjorie Gill and singer songwriter Heir of the Cursed, to share work generated in...
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The Thursday Blog: Re-Tooled

22 February 2018
Doctors with patient, 1999 by Seattle Municipal Archives, under a Creative Commons licence
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The Thursday Post: The Poetry Reader

15 February 2018
The latest issue of the Scottish Poetry Library’s bi-annual newsletter, the Poetry Reader, is out now and available to collect for free from your friendly neighbourhood SPL. What’s in it?
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The SPL Christmas Raffle

12 December 2017
Roll up! Roll up! Get your tickets for the SPL raffle! Ahead of our Discount Xmas Shopping Night on Thursday, 14 December (between 6pm and 9pm), we’re holding a raffle with some fantastic prizes. All money goes to helping to...
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The Thursday Post: Black Friday and an incredible offer by PBS

23 November 2017
We’re great fans of the Poetry Book Society and its Bulletin, here at the SPL, so we were very interested when they contacted us to say that on Black Friday (November 24), the PBS was offering a 50 percent...
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Poets Advisory Group

16 October 2017
Image: L'écrivain by gilles chiroleu, under a Creative Commons licence
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