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#PoetsAtoZ update
We’re still on A! Here’s the requests today [you just had to rhyme -Ed.]: Always remember: ‘There are worse things than having behaved foolishly in public.’ Fleur Adcock, from Things You came back into...
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Robert Louis Stevenson Day 2011
Our friends at the Edinburgh UNESCO City of Literature Trust are celebrating Robert Louis Stevenson Day all day on Thursday 17 November. You can wear velvet, tweet using the hashtag #RLSday, read facts...
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Communications Manager
Description The Scottish Poetry Library is a dynamic organisation, a unique national resource and advocate for poetry. We are expanding our team over the next few months, and are initially looking for...
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‘Gloves of bee’s fur, cap of the wren’s wings’
the mystery sculpture where it was found (photo: Chris Scott) On a rather gloomy Wednesday, with the wind buffeting the iron shutter downstairs, I was alerted (while fishing a consolatory custard-cream...
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Moniack Mhor – The Jessie Kesson Fellowship: 5th – 30th March 2012
Moniack Mhor – The Jessie Kesson Fellowship 5th – 30th March 2012 JOB TITLE – WRITER IN RESIDENCE LOCATION – MONIACK MHOR WRITERS’ CENTRE JOB DESCRIPTION – Moniack Mhor Writers’ Centre are offering a...
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‘Poetry Reading by Kay Ryan’
Some events leave you with good feelings for days afterwards. Obviously the deposit of the final paper sculpture – by someone the Guardian brilliantly called ‘Booksy’ and NPR’s sympathetic columnist...
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Gods, Heroes and Foxes
Robyn reflects on Ted Hughes, and Kay on Christopher Logue, who died on 2 December. The only time I heard Ted Hughes read was at Westminster Abbey in 1985, when the stone honouring sixteen poets of...
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Some do’s and don’ts when applying for a job
Photo credit: The Giant Vermin / flickr We have been sifting through a mass of applications for the position of SPL Communications Manager: arriving at a shortlist was difficult. There are many...
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December
Ah, December, let us count the ways. You hold the enticing possibility of snow. You make us mull over the past year and plan good things for the coming one. And, crucially, you are the only month of...
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To be continued…!
Our blog continues on the brand new Scottish Poetry Library website. You’ll find the gorgeous new website at www.scottishpoetrylibrary.org.uk And you’ll find our most recent blog posts on our Connect...
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