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Festival Poetry: Busy Making Nothing Happen

7 August 2012
Image: Liz Lochhead at Neu! Reekie! 18, by Damien McGlynn August is a busy time for everyone taking part in Edinburgh’s many festivals, but few performers this year have agreed to take on as much as National Poet Liz Lochhead.
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Competition time!

6 August 2012
jump for joy by matt.hintsa, under a Creative Commons licence
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An autumn’s worth of events

3 August 2012
It’s here! Our Autumn Programme arrived from the printer on Wednesday, and I could hardly contain my excitement as we opened the box.  Inside, we found our new events programme which was designed by the talented Heather Tomlinson at CAKE.
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Goodbye, Norma Jean?

2 August 2012
Marilyn Monroe reading on a bench by orionpozo, under a Creative Commons licence In 1962, barely a year after the death of Marilyn Monroe, Norman Rosten wrote a poem about the late actress which Pete Seeger put to music, ‘Who...
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Gifted: The Edinburgh Book Sculptures on Tour 2012

31 July 2012
Rarely a day goes by at the Scottish Poetry Library without an inquiry about the mysterious book sculptures that were discovered in various Edinburgh venues throughout 2011. The first and the last of the sculptures were discovered in the...
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But where’s the poetry?

30 July 2012
My flyer by sealedenvelope, under a Creative Commons licence World Book Night is, of course, a good thing. On April 23rd this year and in 2011, an army of volunteers (somewhere in the region of 20,000) handed out copies of...
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The Toughest Decision of All…

27 July 2012
Sparrows by Hey Paul Studios, under a Creative Commons licence
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This week in the SPL

20 July 2012
Image: The latest issue of the Poetry Reader So, what has the staff of the SPL been up to this week on your behalf?
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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.
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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...
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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.
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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.
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