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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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War Poems

The Thursday Post: Honouring Scotland’s WW1 Poets

31 July 2018
Today, the Scottish Poetry Library, in partnership with City of Edinburgh Council, Edinburgh Napier University, University of Aberdeen and Dignity Funerals, launches an online poll (click here to take part) to find a quote to be inscribed on a...
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The Thursday Post: Wilfred Owen’s Edinburgh 1917-2017

1 June 2017
A century ago, the war poet Wilfred Owen spent summer and autumn in Edinburgh, recovering from shellshock. Owen’s stay in Edinburgh in 1917 proved to be a turning point in the history of English literature, for it’s here that...
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War Poems

The Thursday Post: Dazzle Ships

19 July 2016
During the First World War, the Admiralty in Britain tried a remarkable experiment with a form of camouflage that made ships more, not less, visible. These ‘dazzle ships’ were decorated with extraordinary patterns and colours, no two the same,...
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The Thursday Post: Beneath Troubled Skies

12 November 2015
29. "Tommy" at home in German dug-outs (1914-1918) by pellethepoet, under a Creative Commons licence
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War Poems

The Thursday Post: A Foughten Field

24 September 2015
Reeve 039799 by Otis Historical Archives National Museum of Health, under a Creative Commons licence
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The Thursday Post: The Kaki Tree

6 August 2015
Image: Morven Gregor Thinking of myself as a phoenix, cling on until now. But how painful they have been, those twenty-four years past. Those words were written by Tsutomu Yamaguchi, often described as the luckiest – sometimes as the unluckiest – man of all...
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