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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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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.
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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...
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Postcard from Parnassus

29 June 2012
Rain of Poems by smokeghost, under a Creative Commons licence
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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...
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Locating the Nest

26 June 2012
Nest by ellenmac11, under a Creative Commons licence
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Everyone’s Coming to Edinburgh this August

21 June 2012
Edinburgh International Book Festival at night 01 by byrony2, under a Creative Commons licence
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Eternal 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...
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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...
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Flame On!

8 June 2012
The_Olympic_Torch_2012_0524(080) by iveanidea, under a Creative Commons licence
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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
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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,...
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