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The Thursday Post: Cyrano in Glasgow
30 August 2018
This autumn, Edwin Morgan’s wickedly funny translation of Cyrano de Bergerac will be revived in a new co-production by National Theatre of Scotland, Citizens Theatre and Royal Lyceum Theatre Edinburgh.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...
speak / volumes
6 July 2018
From today, the Scottish Poetry Library hosts speak / volumes an exhibition of work by poet and artist’s book maker Heather Yeung. Yeung is an academic at the University of Dundee, and a fellow of the Centre for Poetic Innovation. Yeung’s...
The Thursday Post: The Edwin Morgan Poetry Award 2018 shortlist revealed
25 June 2018
The Edwin Morgan Trust and the Scottish Poetry Library are delighted to announce the poets shortlisted for the 2018 Edwin Morgan Poetry Award. In alphabetical order: Tom Docherty Nadine Aisha Jassat Daisy Lafarge Peter Ratter Roseanne Watt With a prize...
The Thursday Post: Fringe Phenomenon
14 June 2018
The SPL has flirted with the Festival before. We’ve taken part in events at the Edinburgh International Book Festival. The School of Poets have long held al fresco readings at the Library during August, which poets up for the...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.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?
Crossways
28 March 2018
This April sees the launch of Crossways, a new literary and cultural festival organised by the magazine Irish Pages, which will be taking place in venues across Glasgow’s Merchant City. For a whole week Scottish and Irish poets, prose...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...The Thursday Post: #MeToo
1 March 2018
Image: #womensmarch2018 Philly Philadelphia #MeToo by Rob Kall, under a Creative Commons licenceThe Thursday Blog: Re-Tooled
22 February 2018
Doctors with patient, 1999 by Seattle Municipal Archives, under a Creative Commons licenceThe 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?