Poem of the Week: from The Book of Iona edited by Robert Crawford
23 Mar '21
With Palm Sunday and Holy Week on the horizon, we turn west to The Book of Iona. This anthology, edited by Robert Crawford, is ‘given over to...
New Writing
Spring Comes, Even This Year
19 Mar '21
This weekend we mark the Spring Equinox and International Day of Happiness on Saturday (20 March), and World Poetry Day on Sunday (21 March). It...
World Poetry Day: Somewhere / Today by Nadine Aisha Jassat
16 Mar '21
A cosmic alignment sees World Poetry Day coincide with the first day of Spring on Sunday 21st March 2021. That said, this week’s poem is a...
Wicked Nephews and Hapless Uncles: Extract from The King Over The Water by Desmond Seward
16 Mar '21
New in paperback this week, The King Over The Water by Desmond Seward is the first modern history for general readers of the entire Jacobite movement...
Convent Espionage: Women’s History Month III
15 Mar '21
Our third instalment of extracts for Women’s History Month is a double decker: early-modern prioresses and the very modern Muriel Spark. The...
‘Little Beings’: Extract from Mother: A Human Love Story by Matt Hopwood
09 Mar '21
Mother’s Day is coming up, and in celebration, we have chosen an extract from Mother: A Human Love Story by Matt Hopwood, in which he presents...
Women’s History Month – Scotland: Her Story, Part II
08 Mar '21
In our second extract from Rosemary Goring’s essential anthology, Scotland: Her Story, we present an interview with the only Scottish...
Poem of the Week: Kishie Wife by Roseanne Watt
08 Mar '21
Roseanne Watt rewrites the myth of the bringer of fire in this short poem. In Shaetlan, kishie is a woven basket. In this instance, it is one worn on...
March is Women’s History Month: ‘Who Do You Think You Are’ by Janice Galloway from Scotland: Her Story
02 Mar '21
March is Women’s History Month, with International Women’s Day taking place on 8th March. Rosemary Goring’s anthology, Scotland:...
Poem of the Week: ‘Cannae Sleep’ by Michael Pedersen
02 Mar '21
Michael Pedersen’s 2017 poetry collection Oyster brims briny with poems on all subjects: love, life, travel, sex, Scotland, politics....
A Day Like Any Other
26 Feb '21
An Extract From Chapter 2. Tonto Was a Woman They’d met, George and Anna, when they were nine years old. George’s family had not long moved to a...
How to Be the Perfect Romantic Poet by Liz Lochhead
23 Feb '21
It’s 200 years since the death of John Keats in Rome on February 23rd, 1821. While Liz Lochhead’s poem about the Romantic poets playfully...
