The Thursday Post: ‘Listen, this library-silence thrums’
29 October 2015
Image: The new facade of the SPL by Peggy HughesThe Thursday Post: More Questions than Answers
2 July 2015
Image available via Flickr under a Creative Commons licence The building may be closed but the questions keep coming: can you find a poem about a Polish forest of which I remember a fragment? Do you have the text of...The Thursday Post: Site Lines
28 May 2015
I’ve always loved Bertolt Brecht’s poem ‘Questions from a worker who reads’, about the tendency for history to report the names of the great men and not mention their enablers: ‘Caesar beat the Gauls. / Did he not even...The Thursday Post: Packing Up
9 April 2015
We’re on the move – finally! The contract is signed, the movers booked, and we’re packing. The movers have estimated that we’ll need around 1,000 to 1,200 boxes….
So much depends…
8 January 2015
"so much depends upon a red wheel barrow..." by Ken MccMillan, under Creative Commons License
Day Eight of our Online Advent Calendar: 30 gifts for our 30th birthday
12 December 2014
This year marked the 30th anniversary of the Scottish Poetry Library. Happy birthday to us! If the SPL is to continue another 30 years, however, we need your help. We're running out of space and need to renovate the...