Editor's note: This story was originally published on Jan. 24, 2020, before the restrictions of the pandemic limited social gatherings. But even COVID-19 can't dampen the collective spirit of Robert ...

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David Kinloch is surely one of the most innovative poets ever to come out of Scotland. At times, he plays with archaic Scottish phrases, while spinning narratives about literary and art figures as ...

TESSA RANSFORD, who has died of cancer aged 76, was an editor, translator and activist and the founder-director of the Scottish Poetry Library. With a group of strong supporters, among them some of ...

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As new national poet, the Gaelic speaker is looking at all of the languages spoken in the country, to see ‘what we can learn between them’ Peter Mackay seems to write poetry as he speaks. An island, ...

Why do we remember particular poems and poets – and happily forget others? The Scottish poet Edwin Morgan was born 100 years ago, and this week marks the the start of a year of celebration of the man ...