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Language is Where the People Are: W.S. Graham at 100

Welcome to the W.S. Graham centenary pages, hosted by the Scottish Poetry Library on behalf of the estate of W.S. Graham, and part of the estate’s centenary project ‘Language is Where the People Are’. These pages will help you keep up to date with news of centenary events, poems and publications, and offer a gallery of previously unseen images of the author and a selection of materials from the estate archives.

The title of the centenary project is taken from Graham’s poem ‘The Dark Dialogues’, and reflects key themes in the author’s work: the difficulty of communication, the importance of community, and the need for humour. The project is supported by the National Lottery through Creative Scotland.

We invite you to celebrate the life and work of this major Scottish poet.

Image: Copyright © the Estate of Michael Seward Snow, 2018. All rights reserved.

W. S. Graham links

Poems from the Blue Crevasse

During 2018, twelve digital poets-in-residence post new poems commissioned by the estate of W.S. Graham.
Twelve specially written poems

W. S. Graham

W.S. Graham was a Scottish poet who spent most of his life in Cornwall. His work was a quest for integrity of communication, and he is praised for his ‘spare and elliptical beauty of voice’.
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W.S. Graham Centenary 2018 Facebook page

For updates throughout Graham's centenary year.
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W.S. Graham's Faber Page

Graham's publisher marks the poet's centenary.
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Audio: readings by W.S. Graham

Listen to the poet himself read his own work.
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