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Poesiefestival: 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,...
An Anthem for Doomed Youth
30 May 2012
Project 365 Day 315: Remembrance by Greg McMullin, under a Creative Commons licence
Happy birthday, Aonghas Macneacail!
29 May 2012
Aonghas Macneacail turns 70 this year, a birthday worth celebrating. Polygon are publishing a new edition of his selected poems, Laughing at the Clock, which we are pleased to say is being launched here at the Scottish Poetry Library...
Being Boring
25 May 2012
Teresa Monachino brought the library a really boring book when she visited the SPL. Of course, we fell in love with it. Hold on, you say, what?
Fair-haired Duncan of the Songs
23 May 2012
duncan ban mcintyre memorial greyfriars gaelic side by Gary Thomson, under a Creative Commons licence There has been a number of high profile bicentenaries celebrated this year: Dickens, Browning and Lear. 2012 marks another bicentenary, not of a birth but...Blooming Marvellous
22 May 2012
Chelsea Flower Show by Huron Tours & Travel, under a Creative Commons licence
Events, dear boy, events
14 May 2012
Untitled by lipar, under a Creative Commons licence I’ve just completed my first fortnight as Programme Manager at the Scottish Poetry Library – and what a joyous time it has been.Browning versions
4 May 2012
Robert Browning by Steve Hunisett, under a Creative Commons licence
‘Is there anybody there?’ A century of ‘The Listeners’
4 May 2012
Haunted House by Sean MacEntree, under a Creative Commons licenceAli Smith on Margaret Tait: ‘argumentative, spontaneous-seeming and energetic’
30 April 2012
Margaret Tait © Alex Pirie Margaret Tait is one of the most bafflingly overlooked of Scotland’s versatile twentieth-century artists. At last, the truly neglected aspects of her work are now addressed by Poems, Stories, and Writings, a new collection of...