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Projects

The Scottish Poetry Library rarely walks alone; it works with a wide variety of partners – from Maggie’s Centres to the Royal Collection to Strathclyde Partnership for Transport – to deliver the benefits and delights of poetry through innovative projects.

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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.
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Current Project

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
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Project Archive

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

Celebrating the Scottish poet's centenary in 2018.
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Project Archive

Living Voices

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