Projects

Pocket Poetry: Poems for Nurses and Midwives

Using the inspiration of Tools of the Trade, this current project was initiated by Dr Martina Balaam of Edinburgh University, sparked by the Nursing Now Global campaign and plans for the Year of the Nurse and the Midwife 2020. ...

Poetry Helps: Poems for Social Workers

The Scottish Poetry Library is working alongside the University of Edinburgh and Edinburgh Napier University on a poetry anthology for newly qualified social workers in Scotland.

Poems for Social Work: Call for Poems

We are currently collecting published poems that inspire, support reflection, enhance empathy and soothe.

To Learn the Future: Poems for Teachers

Newly-qualified teachers in 2018 and 2019 will be welcomed with a gift that lets them know they are not alone, whatever challenges they meet.

Tools of the Trade: Poems for New Doctors

Tools of the Trade is a pocket-sized anthology of around 50 poems. It has been given free to all medical students graduating in Scotland since 2014

Creative Words for Wellbeing in Scotland

Libraries across Scotland are collaborating on Creative Words for Wellbeing in Scotland, a new project using reading and writing to improve the health of the nation.

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

Celebrating the Scottish poet's centenary in 2018.

Living Voices

Living Voices was a national programme developed by the Scottish Poetry Library and the Scottish Storytelling Centre.