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Fair-haired Duncan of the Songs

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

Chelsea Flower Show by Huron Tours & Travel, under a Creative Commons licence

Events, dear boy, events

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.

Best Scottish Poems 2011

Image: Martin O’Donnell’s Boat by Alice Myers

Browning versions

Robert Browning by Steve Hunisett, under a Creative Commons licence

‘Is there anybody there?’ A century of ‘The Listeners’

Haunted House by Sean MacEntree, under a Creative Commons licence

Ali Smith on Margaret Tait: ‘argumentative, spontaneous-seeming and energetic’

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...

‘EM was here and is’

National Portrait Gallery 024 by byronv2, under a Creative Commons licence

Picturing Shakespeare

Shakespeare by reuvenim, under a Creative Commons licence

Laird Byron

Lord Byron by hummingcrow, under a Creative Commons licence How Scottish was Byron? Blessed with a baronetcy and educated at Dulwich, Harrow and Cambridge, he might, in other circumstances, be seen as a pillar of the English establishment. He only...

Lost for Words? Can you help?

Sherlock Holmes by By givingnot@rocketmail.com, under a Creative Commons license

In the Wake of the Titanic

Titanic Exhibit by daveparker, under a Creative Commons licence Outside of war, has there ever been a public event that has inspired as many poems as the sinking of the Titanic on 15 April 1912? While the ship itself proved...