Poem of the Week: Summer by Alexander McCall Smith
20 Jul '21
This poem captures the calm of a perfect summer day – how the sky and sea are so still that time seems to have permanently stopped. This...
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Poem of the Week: Beachcomber by George Mackay Brown
13 Jul '21
Alexander McCall Smith selected George Mackay Brown‘s poem ‘Beachcomber’ for his anthology of Scottish poems, A Gathering. He...
Poem of the Week: The Poet by George Mackay Brown
11 Jun '21
The title of our new volume of selected poems by Orcadian writer George Mackay Brown, Carve the Runes, comes from the words inscribed on his island...
Poem of the Week: Adelstrop Revisited by Alexander McCall Smith
08 Jun '21
Travelling on public transport brings with it a particular set of rules and etiquette, and for many, a small silver lining to the past year was the...
Poem of the Week: Moment Musical in Assynt by Norman MacCaig
31 May '21
Henry Morton described Skye’s Cuillin ridge as ‘Wagner’s ride of the Valkyries frozen in stone and hung up like a colossal screen...
Poem of the Week: ‘Scaffolding’ by Eveline Pye
18 May '21
Two poetry anthologies for key workers are published this week – To Learn the Future: Poems for Teachers and To Mind Your Life: Poems for...
Poem of the Week: ‘Hope’ is the thing with feathers
11 May '21
Celebrations of the NHS have special resonance in 2021. Our newest poetry collection, published in partnership with the Scottish Poetry Library, is...
Poem of the Week: ‘A New Child: ECL’ by George Mackay Brown
13 Apr '21
Today marks 25 years since George Mackay Brown died on 13th April 1996 in Stromness, Orkney. But 2021 also sees the centenary of his birth. Polygon...
Poem for Holy Week: Pilate at Fortingall by Edwin Morgan
29 Mar '21
Edwin Morgan wrote a Good Friday poem about a man he met on a Glasgow bus at 3pm that day. You can feel the spring sunshine through the grimy windows...
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...
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...
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....
