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Flowery language
12 April 2012
Daffodil Explosion by outdoorPDK, under a Creative Commons licence
Cracking open Easter
5 April 2012
Easter Eggs! by Avelino Maestas, under a Creative Commons licence
And the winners are….
4 April 2012
Quill by sure2talk, under a Creative Commons licence The Scottish Poetry Library, National Galleries of Scotland and the English Speaking Union are delighted to announce the winners of Inspired? Get writing! 2012. Inspired? Get writing! 2012 has now been judged and...
Nothing But the Poem: Rudyard Kipling
2 April 2012
Rudyard Kipling by liits, under a Creative Commons licence
“Soft music at the end of the day, big music in the memory”
29 March 2012
Photo: Roddy Simpson
Wuthering Heights
26 March 2012
Wuthering Heights by Scott MacLeod Liddle, under a Creative Commons license
Spring Forward!
23 March 2012
“Nothing is so beautiful as Spring,” as Gerard Manley Hopkins wrote, an observation we can hardly deny after the past couple of days of daffodil-bright sunshine. We lose an hour this weekend and gain a new season (remember, clock-winders,...The Written World
13 March 2012
Olympic Coffee by devin.berg, under a Creative Commons license Ever since the fall of the Tower of Babel, language has divided as much as it has united mankind. Sport, on the other hand, is a way of bringing different nations...‘Connecting Cultures’
12 March 2012
365_049 by Canned Muffins, under a Creative Commons licence Commonwealth Day is an annual event that covers a trans-continental community of some two billion people, often from very different backgrounds. Held in Westminster Abbey, the Commonwealth Observance is a ceremony...
Raven Mad
9 March 2012
The raven (Edgar Allan Poe) by Kevin Dooley, under a Creative Commons license
George Wyllie, Mad Professor
8 March 2012
George Wyllie belongs to a small but significant tally of Scots we might call, taking our cue from a poem Liz Lochhead wrote about him, ‘the Mad Professors’.