The Thursday Post: With Feathers
10 November 2016
‘Hope’, as Emily Dickinson memorably put it, ‘is the thing with feathers.’ This year has often felt like an over-plucked turkey. Many are the reasons for feeling that way, from the death of David Bowie to, well, take your...The Thursday Blog: Poetry By Heart Scotland needs your help!
27 October 2016
Scotland’s poets are writing to their high schools to encourage them to take part in Poetry by Heart Scotland, a national competition encouraging students to memorize and perform poetry. Now we want you to join in and write to...The Thursday Post: The Shop
20 October 2016
As a Library, the bulk of our services are free and will always remain so, whether that be loaning books, making an inquiry or downloading a podcast from our website. Did you know, however, that we have a shop...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...
Whatever the Sea
3 October 2016
Having long since entered the ‘third age’ myself, I find that poems about getting older have suddenly become much more interesting. Many really good Scottish ones on the subject were catching my eye, and I realised it was a...The Thursday Post: Concrete Plans
11 August 2016
We are delighted to be taking part in the Edinburgh Art Festival programme again this year. We are drawing on our special collections to create a display that explores the connections between art and poetry that began in the...
The Thursday Post: Adieu
25 May 2016
Image: Robyn Marsack on the day of the SPL's reopening, October 2015 (by Camila Cavalcante) It ‘stings a little but has gaiety’ – this line struck me as I heard Denise Riley reading at the SPL on 12 May: it...The Thursday Post: Our New Director
3 March 2016
The Board of the Scottish Poetry Library is very pleased to announce the appointment of Asif Khan as the new Director of the Library. He will take up his position at the beginning of June 2016.
Gift Rap – the SPL’s Books of 2015
18 December 2015
Present Christmas Tree by Farrellink, under a Creative Commons linkThe Thursday Post: A Christmas Message from the Director
17 December 2015
Image: Roses_in_the_snow by albularider, under a Creative Commons licenceThe Thursday Post: Welcome back
19 November 2015
Image: one of the cards you can buy from the SPL shop. It's an odd feeling. Settling back into the refurbished Library once more after many months away. The place feels familiar and yet so different. We continue to do...
Re-open the Doors! The SPL’s Reopening in Pictures
5 November 2015
On Wednesday, 28 October 2015, the Scottish Poetry Library reopened its doors. The Library closed in May of the same year when the building began a major refurbishment. The reopening attracted a number of noteable guests, noteably the Cabinet...