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Postcard from Pisa
16 July 2012
In the past, poets have travelled to Pisa to escape a climate at home inhospitable to their talents. I went on holiday to Pisa to escape a native climate that was simply inhospitable.
Cast Your Vote… Puffling vs. Mawling
13 July 2012
Now there’s no denying that Buddy, the little flood-lost puffling pictured above, and featured on the BBC News website today, is wildly cute… look at his sad little eyes, his winter white breast, and really, is there any cuter...
Interning at the Scottish Poetry Library
12 July 2012
A Scottish summer means wool jumpers, endless cups of tea, and constant rain... our intern Jaclyn reflects on her time with us.
Mary Symon
10 July 2012
The Scottish Poets section on our website is an ongoing project; we are gradually adding poets, both dead and alive, keeping information up to date, and adding images where possible.
Turkmen Poet Ak Welsapar Visits the Library
6 July 2012
What a magical time we had yesterday with the Turkmen poet Ak Welsapar, who had journeyed from London where he was recently taking part in Poetry Parnassus, a gathering of poets from countries around the world.
Lost for Words? Can you help us?
4 July 2012
At the moment we are looking for information about a minor English poet who wrote verse for children; her name was Elizabeth Fleming, and she appeared most frequently in anthologies in the 1940s and 50s; her own books, Gammon...Postcard from Parnassus
29 June 2012
Rain of Poems by smokeghost, under a Creative Commons licence
Seventy Years of Ruste
27 June 2012
Image: Arne Ruste enjoys his 70th birthday party, supplied by Christine De Luca Poet Christine De Luca writes: I first met Arne Ruste in Edinburgh in 2002. We were part of a small group of poets from several European countries about...
Everyone’s Coming to Edinburgh this August
21 June 2012
Edinburgh International Book Festival at night 01 by byrony2, under a Creative Commons licenceEternal Flames
14 June 2012
“Up in the morning’s no for me, / Up in the morning early,” Burns wrote, and normally, one takes his point. Not this morning though; we left our beds before the birds began to trill, up even before John...Peace Camp
13 June 2012
Camp by vork22, under a Creative Commons licence Our friends at Peace Camp contacted usto see if we could help them out with a poetry project. Below they outline what they've been up to - and how you can help...