Digital Collections

Here at the Scottish Poetry Library we have a wonderful archive of artists’ books, visual poetry, poem-objects and other innovative poetic works, which extend the tradition established by avant-garde poets Edwin Morgan and Ian Hamilton Finlay. We have digitised a small selection of archive items by notable contemporary Scottish practitioners, Thomas A. Clark, Julie Johnstone and Heather H. Yeung, which you can explore below.

To view the originals, and more from the archive, pop in to make an appointment or ask a Librarian.

This project has been a completed in collaboration with Dr Eleanore Widger at the University of Dundee, with support from the National Productivity Investment Fund, the Arts and Humanities Research Council, the Scottish Graduate School for Arts and Humanities, and the Centre for Poetic Innovation at the Universities of Dundee and St Andrews.

Digital Collections at the SPL

Thomas A. Clark

The poetry of Thomas A. Clark has been consistently attentive to form and to the experience of walking in the landscape, returning again and again to the lonely terrain of the Highlands and Islands.

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Julie Johnstone

Julie Johnstone is an artist, publisher and independent curator. Her practice encompasses book works, poetry objects and installations which engage a minimalist aesthetic to explore themes of perception and place, and the meditative qualities of poetic language and space.

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Heather H. Yeung

Heather H. Yeung (楊希蒂) is a poet, visual artist, book maker and performer. Most of her work includes poetic text in some form, but this characteristically migrates between media and practices, from hand-made artist books to installations, prints and...

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