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Online guide to Scottish Poets

Welcome to our online guide to Scottish poets. Please also consult the online catalogue to explore our physical collections.

If you have an entry in the guide which needs to be updated, please email the changes required to reception@spl.org.uk with online poet update in the subject line.

Poets can be added to the online guide through a nomination process which takes place every two years. A list of criteria that poets must meet to be added to the online guide is available and can also be downloaded.  Nominated poets are considered by a panel which will consist of

  • a publisher or poet
  • someone with knowledge of Scots language or Scottish Gaelic
  • a member of the Scottish Poetry Library.

An open call for nominations has just closed and the nominations will be considered by a panel. The poets selected for the online guide will be announced on 16 December 2025.

 

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Gwenhwyfar Ferch Rhys

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Caitlin Allmond Sherret

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Elissa Hunter-Dorans

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Calum Findlay Rodger

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Young Makar Brooke Collins

Brooke Collins

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Mattea Gernentz

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Ria Smart performing

Ria Brontë

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Michael Grieve

Michael Grieve was shortlisted for the 2020 Edwin Morgan Poetry Award. His poems have appeared in Magma, The Scores, Perverse, and Gutter, and his pamphlet, Luck, is published by HappenStance.
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Colin Bramwell

Colin Bramwell is a writer and translator, mainly of poetry. He was born in Ayrshire, grew up in Fortrose on the Black Isle and lives in Edinburgh. Colin’s work has been published widely in magazines such as Poetry Review, Irish...
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Charles Lang

Charles Lang is from Glasgow. His poems have appeared in numerous publications including Poetry Ireland Review, The Poetry Review and The Stinging Fly. He was selected for the Poetry Ireland Introductions series in 2022. In 2024, he was Ciaran Carson Writing and the...
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Michael Mullen

Michael Mullen is a queer writer and spoken word artist writing in both Scots and Standard English. Their work interrogates the relationship between art, class and identity. The writing is experimental with both content and form, and they take...
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RJ Arkhipov

RJ Arkhipov is a Welsh-Scottish poet based in Leith. He has lived and studied in Paris, where he became immersed in the people, poetry and politics of the Ville-Lumière. Arkhipov’s debut collection of poems, Visceral: The Poetry of Blood...
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