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Sarah Howe on Ledbury Emerging Poetry Critics Programme

T.S. Eliot Prizewinner Sarah Howe explains how the Ledbury Emerging Poetry Critics programme is changing the face of criticism.

Revealed: The line-up for Aye Write’s Best of the Best Scottish Poems event

Discover who is on the bill for our Aye Write event at the end of March.

New Poetry, New Challenges: Digitising the SPL’s Archives

Nell Widger is currently researching digitization methods for the Library's special collections. Here she blogs about the challenges.

Meetup Groups in Edinburgh

Find out more information about poetry groups that meet outside of the SPL

The Thursday Post: The latest issue of the Poetry Reader is here

The latest issue of the Poetry Reader has arrived. Find out what delights it contains in our blog.

The Thursday Post: Women and the Small Press

Throughout February and March, the Library is hosting an exhibition, Women and the Small Press, which features items taken from the Library’s small press and pamphlet archive. Learn more in our blog.

The Thursday Post: Nora Gomringer

We’re delighted that Nora Gomringer will be performing at the Library on Saturday, 16 February. Learn more about this fantastic Swiss-German poet in our blog.

The Thursday Post: Best of the Best Scottish Poems is Coming

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

The Thursday Post: Our New Website

We've launched a new website. Discover why and what the website can now do for you it couldn't previously.

Gerda Stevenson pays tribute to Margaret Tait at 100

To mark Margaret Tait's centenary this weekend, Gerda Stevenson reads three poems by Tait.

Charles Hamilton Sorley: It is Easy to be Dead

As a new production of a play about the Scottish war poet Charles Hamilton Sorley is staged, our latest blog takes a look at it and Neu! Reekie's involvement.

The Thursday Post: Tony Harrison Film Poem Season

One of the UK’s leading poets and dramatists Tony Harrison comes to Edinburgh ahead of a season of his rarely shown ‘film poems’ at Edinburgh Filmhouse. We have all the details in our latest blog.