Marianne Boruch
January 2013
Poet Marianne Boruch was awarded a 'Faculty Fellowship in a Second Discipline', permitting her to study something new for a semester. Her choice? Anatomy classes. She talks about her experiences to the SPL.
My Life in Poetry with Candia McWilliam
December 2012
Award-wnning novelist Candia McWilliam discusses her favourite poems. Includes verse by Shakespeare, Robert Browning and Emily Dickinson.
The Gift to See Ourselves – The Best Scottish Poetry Collections
December 2012
James Robertson (And the Land Lay Still, The Testament of Gideon Mack), and Dorothy McMillan (Modern Scottish Women Poets) join SPL director Robyn Marsack to nominate Scotland’s best collections of poetry.
Sean Borodale
November 2012
T S Eliot Prize- and Costa Book Award-nominated Sean Borodale reads poems from Bee Journal and talks about his interests in time, bees, Virgil and much more.
From the Archive: John Burnside and Allison Funk
November 2012
Scotland's John Burnside and America's Allison Funk are captured in conversation, speaking about what they enjoy about each other's country, from poetry and music to the mutability of the landscape and people.
Marie Howe
October 2012
Marie Howe talks about the craft of writing poetry, focussing on her poems ‘The Star Market’ and ‘The Snow Storm’.
The Written World
October 2012
The Written World is the Scottish Poetry Library's London 2012 project. To mark the Olympics, we launched a scheme to find a poem to represent each of the 204 countries taking part. We take the chance to look back...
Judy Brown
September 2012
Judy Brown discusses how her approach to poetry, using her poem 'Spontaneous Combustion' as a way into her work and methods of composition.
Liz Lochhead on the 40th anniversary of Memo For Spring
September 2012
In 1972, Liz Lochhead published her debut collection, Memo For Spring, a landmark in Scottish literature. In an extended interview with Colin Waters, the National Poet of Scotland discusses what the early 1970s poetry scene she emerged into was...
Brian Johnstone
August 2010
Poet and former director of the StAnza poetry festival, discusses the highlights of his StAnza career, what he thinks makes a good poetry festival, his own work and his creative improvisations as part of jazz-poetry combo Trio Verso.