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Celebrating 30 years of Dream State with its editor Donny O'Rourke
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In this extended version of Nothing But The Poem Kevin Williamson interviews Donny O'Rourke, editor of Dream State - The New Scottish Poets which was published in 1994 and remains the gold standard of poetry anthologies, and, arguably, the most visionary poetry anthology ever published in Scotland.
on Thu, 1PM
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Faster than fairies, faster than witches, / Bridges and houses, hedges and ditches; / And charging along like troops in a battle, / All through the...
on Dec 6
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Nuair a bha mi sa bhun-sgoil / fhuair mi tiona sleamhainn tana / far an cuirinn m’ fhaclan / sgrìobhte air sgoltaidhean pàipeir. / / Chan eil cuimhne agam...
on Dec 4
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Scotland's Makar - Our National Poet
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National Poet of Scotland
on Dec 3
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Up Loch Fyne by Naomi Mitchison - Scottish Poetry Library
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/ The humped grey fish-watcher has become with one wingflap / The elegant trailing heron that Hokusai dreamed up, / Far from Loch Fyne. / May my...
on Nov 29
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Last Lauch by Douglas Young - Scottish Poetry Library
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The Minister said it wad dee, / the cypress buss I plantit. / But the buss grew...
on Nov 24
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Loch Thom by W. S. Graham - Scottish Poetry Library
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1 / / Just for the sake of recovering / I walked backward from fifty-six / Quick years of age wanting to see, / And managed not to trip...
on Nov 19
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Almorness by Stuart A. Paterson - Scottish Poetry Library
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The tide is sidling up to Almorness, / unmet by those returned now north & west / away from here.
on Nov 3
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Beachcomber by George Mackay Brown - Scottish Poetry Library
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Sunday, for fear of the elders, I sit on my bum. What’s heaven? A sea chest with a thousand gold coins.
on Oct 17
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Fergusson's Statue by James Robertson - Scottish Poetry Library
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Ye're stridin doon the Canongate, brent new / and lookin like ye've never been awa, / were never found curled deid upon the...
on Oct 17
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Hell for Poets by Liz Lochhead - Scottish Poetry Library
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It's Hell for the poet arriving for the gig / Off the five thirty three to meet the organiser / Who claps her in...
on Oct 3
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London Scottish by Mick Imlah - Scottish Poetry Library
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April, the last full fixture of the spring: / 'Feet, Scottish, feet!' – they rucked the fear of God / Into Blackheath. Their club...
on Sep 26
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Rose Hips and Thistles by Marion McCready - Scottish Poetry Library
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It's been a long Indian summer / and the hips are rotting on the beach rose. / I can almost...
on Sep 23
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Scottish Poetry Library - The world's leading resource for Scottish poetry
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The Scottish Poetry Library is a unique national resource and advocate for the art of poetry, and Scottish poetry in particular.
on Sep 22
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Listen tae the Teacher - Scottish Poetry Library
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He’s five year auld, he’s aff tae school,Fairmer’s bairn, wi a pencil an a rule,His teacher scoffs when he says ‘hoose’,‘The word is “house”, you silly little goose.’He tells his Ma when he gets backHe saw a ‘mouse’ in an auld cairt track.His father laughs fae the stack-yard dyke, ‘Yon’s a...
on Sep 22
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Maud Sulter - Poet - Scottish Poetry Library
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Born in Glasgow of Scots and Ghanaian descent, Maud Sulter was a visual artist, writer, playwright and cultural historian. ‘As a Blackwoman’, the title of her first volume of poems, remained the perspective for her explorations across genres.
on Sep 19
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The Republic of Fife by Kathleen Jamie - Scottish Poetry Library
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Higher than the craw-stepped / gables of our institutes – chess-clubs, / fanciers, reels & Strathspeys – / the old kingdom of lum, with crowns agley. / / All...
on Sep 18
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Clydegrad by Edwin Morgan - Scottish Poetry Library
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It was so fine we lingered there for hours. / The long broad streets shone strongly after rain. / Sunset blinded the tremble of...
on Sep 3
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Late show by John Burnside - Scottish Poetry Library
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I only watch reruns now, / or films about geese, / / and yet I’m waiting for the miracle / I used to find in early black...
on Aug 30
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Lantern Scottish Poetry Podcasts - Podcast - Scottish Poetry Library
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Here they are! The first 12 episodes of the Lantern Scottish Poetry podcast featuring poems, chat, and a galaxy of wonderful poets and poetry stars. Hosted superbly by Kathleen Jamie and Ally Heather and recorded (10 of them) at the Scottish Poetry Library. Produced by Bespoken Media and...
on Aug 28
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Requiem by Robert Louis Stevenson - Scottish Poetry Library
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Under the wide and starry sky, / Dig the grave and let me die. / Glad did I live and gladly die, / ...
on Aug 26
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People Made Glasgow by Kate Tough - Scottish Poetry Library
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Shame in our hulls / why else would we drink to incoherence / jump on the heads of passing men / punch our women / tell our children...
on Aug 23
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Wolves by Douglas Lipton - Scottish Poetry Library
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for the new Scottish Parliament / / The icy rain is spitting / on the pines and golden birches. / Hangings of black cloud / are torn apart by...
on Aug 13
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The First Men on Mercury by Edwin Morgan - Scottish Poetry Library
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– We come in peace from the third planet. / Would you take us to your leader? / / – Bawr stretter! Bawr. Bawr.
on Aug 12
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Pabail by Ruaraidh MacThòmaisDerick Thomson - Scottish Poetry Library
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Air iomall an talamh-àitich, eadar dhà sholas, / tha a’ churracag a’ ruith ʼs a’ stad, ʼs a’ ruith ʼs a’ stad, / is...
on Aug 5
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Fiere by Jackie Kay - Scottish Poetry Library
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If ye went tae the tapmost hill, Fiere Whaur we used tae clamb as girls, Ye’d see the snow the day, Fiere, Settling...
on Jul 30
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Dumbiedikes by James Robertson - Scottish Poetry Library
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Hoo mony trees tae prent a thoosan buiks? Hoo mony buiks tae pulp a thoosan trees? Hoo mony trees tae launch a thoosan boats?
on Jul 28
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The Beginning of a New Song by Iain Mac a’ GhobhainnIain Crichton Smith - Scottish Poetry Library
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Let her new river shine on a day That is fresh and glittering and contemporary; Let it be true to itself and to its origins Inventive, original, philosophical
on Jul 1
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To Margaret on a Monday by Joan Ure - Scottish Poetry Library
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I saw you from my window, Margaret. / I was watching the seagulls swooping the sky. / The seagulls, I was telling myself, know / today...
on Jun 26
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Refuge by Marjorie Lotfi - Scottish Poetry Library
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— after “Les Voyageurs”, sculptures with huge portions of their bodies missing, by Frances Bruno Catalano Take out his heart,lungs, one arm, the wholebelly, and the belt strapthat holds it all in place.Let the lighthouse beaconthrow its false lightthrough him, promisesafe passage. Take outhis...
on Jun 26
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Prayer for My Father as a Child by Miriam Nash - Scottish Poetry Library
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In the house where he sleeps let my ears be the leaves at the window.
on Jun 25
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Here lies our land by Kathleen Jamie - Scottish Poetry Library
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Small folk playing our part. / ‘Come all ye’, the country says / You win me, who take me most to heart. ...
on Jun 25
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Love by Edwin Morgan - Scottish Poetry Library
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Love rules. Love laughs. Love marches. Love is the wolf that guards the...
on Jun 1
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Afterlife by John Burnside - Scottish Poetry Library
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When we are gone / our lives will continue without us / / – or so we believe and, / at times, we have tried to imagine / / the...
on May 31
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The Picnic by Edwin Morgan - Scottish Poetry Library
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In a little rainy mist of white and grey we sat under an old tree, drank tea toasts to the powdery mountain, undrunk got merry, played catch with the empty flask
on May 21
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Wasp and Bee, or What Now, Moralist? by Hamish Maclaren - Scottish Poetry Library
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From high endeavour / On his bright wings, / The wasp is fallen / To evil things. / / From deep...
on May 20
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Sea Buckthorn by Helen Cruickshank - Scottish Poetry Library
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Saut an’ cruel winds tae shear it, / Nichts o’ haar an’ rain – / Ye micht think the sallow...
on May 15
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On Being Eighty by Helen Cruickshank - Scottish Poetry Library
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Broad in the beam? More broad in sympathy. / Stiff in the joints? More flexible in mind. / Deaf on the right? New voices...
on May 15
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Lantern Scottish Poetry, hosted by Kathleen Jamie - Podcast - Scottish Poetry Library
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The Lantern Scottish Poetry podcast launched this week. These first episodes feature seven outstanding poets sharing work across three beautifully recorded episodes. The Lantern is hosted by Scotland’s Makar, the national poet Kathleen Jamie. She told the SPL about the project; “Podcasts and...
on May 14
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Curaidhean by Somhairle MacGill-EainSorley MacLean - Scottish Poetry Library
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Chan fhaca mi Lannes aig Ratasbon / no MacGillFhinnein aig Allt Èire / no Gill-Ìosa aig Cùil Lodair, / ach chunnaic mi Sasannach san Èipheit. / / Fear beag...
on May 8
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A Poem for a Morning by Margaret Tait - Scottish Poetry Library
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I had to get nearer the sky, For the city was too full of rooms And I can’t be content with a window.
on May 8
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Aw Jock Tamson's by Janet Paisley - Scottish Poetry Library
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Moonrise, an maudlin in the mirk, / we coorie in, hoose selt, hame hawked, / oor labour thirled tae yesterday, / the morra pawned fur brick-a-brack. / / Thieves...
on May 1
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In the Time of Tyrants by William Soutar - Scottish Poetry Library
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All that the hand may touch; / All that the hand may own; / Crumbles beyond time’s clutch / Down to oblivion. / / Fear not the boasts which...
on Apr 28
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Hyena by Edwin Morgan - Scottish Poetry Library
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I am waiting for you. / I have been travelling all morning through the bush / and not eaten. / I am lying at the edge...
on Apr 27
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Seven Decades by Edwin Morgan - Scottish Poetry Library
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At forty I woke up, saw it was day, found there was love, heard a new beat, heard Beats, sent airmail solidarity to Saõ Paulo’s poetic-concrete revolution
on Apr 27
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At Eighty by Edwin Morgan - Scottish Poetry Library
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Push the boat out, compañeros, push the boat out, whatever the sea. Who says we cannot guide ourselves through the boiling reefs, black as they are, the enemy of us all makes sure of it!
on Apr 27
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In Touch With Edwin Morgan - Blog - Scottish Poetry Library
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James McGonigal and John Coyle, co-editors of In Touch With Language, a newly published collection of Edwin Morgan’s prose 1950–2005, reflect on the process of putting the book together, and their own experience of Morgan as a teacher.
on Apr 27
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Thursday by Douglas Dunn - Scottish Poetry Library
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Gave yet another lecture. God, I’m boring. / Said all the same old things I’ve said before / With touches of ‘however-ing’ and ‘therefore-ing’. / Dear...
on Apr 25
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Beelzebub Resurfaces by James Robertson - Scottish Poetry Library
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A girnin, greitin deil wis I – / I wis auld, and feelin aulder. / Syne the heatin system burst in Hell: / It wis cauld...
on Apr 22
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Stars and Planets by Norman MacCaig - Scottish Poetry Library
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It’s hard to think that the earth is one – This poor sad bearer of wars and disasters Rolls-Roycing round the sun with its load of gangsters, Attended only by the loveless moon.
on Apr 22