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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.
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...
Flame On!
8 June 2012
The_Olympic_Torch_2012_0524(080) by iveanidea, under a Creative Commons licencePoesiefestival: A weekend in Berlin
7 June 2012
German flag on my wall by Gooch Chuang, under a Creative Commons licence
Rhyme Royal
1 June 2012
Kenneth Newis and Her Majesty The Queen with the Visitors Book by The Queen's Hall, under a Creative Commons licence The first Elizabethan era was arguably the greatest ever for English poetry. William Shakespeare, Edmund Spencer, John Donne, George Herbert,...