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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 licenceEvents, 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...‘EM was here and is’
27 April 2012
National Portrait Gallery 024 by byronv2, under a Creative Commons licencePicturing Shakespeare
23 April 2012
Shakespeare by reuvenim, under a Creative Commons licenceLaird Byron
19 April 2012
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?
18 April 2012
Sherlock Holmes by By givingnot@rocketmail.com, under a Creative Commons licenseIn the Wake of the Titanic
13 April 2012
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...