‘Memo to myself for Spring’ by Liz Lochhead
19 Apr '22
This year is the 50th anniversary of the publication of Liz Lochhead’s debut collection, Memo for Spring. Last month we published a brand new...
Poem of the Week
Christmas Poem 2021: ‘Tinker Talk’ by George Mackay Brown
21 Dec '21
The Twelve Days of Christmas: Tinker Talk George Mackay Brown I saw the four shepherds, black In the sun’s ruin. Four star-cut shadows, soon. Folk...
Poem of the Week: ‘House of Winter’ by George Mackay Brown
07 Dec '21
Introducing a new volume of poetry The Wreck of the Archangel in 1989, George Mackay Brown wrote ‘There has been no book of poetry from me...
St Andrew’s Day Poem: ‘Canedolia’ by Edwin Morgan
30 Nov '21
Edwin Morgan(1920-2010), Scotland’s first modern Makar, was one of the country’s most playful and curious poets. His vast body of work...
Poem of the week: ‘Only One Home’ by Alexander McCall Smith for the WWF
08 Nov '21
Our poem of the week was written exclusively for the World Wildlife fund by Alexander McCall Smith. ‘Only One Home’ is featured as part...
Poem of the Week: Norman MacCaig, ‘Notations of ten summer minutes’
31 Aug '21
Norman MacCaig’s poetry about Assynt, collected in Polygon’s Between Mountain and Sea, are spare, simple evocations of time and place....
Poem of the Week: ‘When Carla Moved Out’ by Michael Pedersen
24 Aug '21
Michael Pedersen’s second poetry collection, Oyster (2017), is a salty scoop of delight that slips down in one mouthful. Bite down, though: its...
Poem of the Week: ‘Arthur’s Seat and Geology’ by Alexander McCall Smith
10 Aug '21
Alexander McCall Smith’s 2020 poetry collection In a Time of Distance contains a sequence of seven poems, each about one of Edinburgh’s...
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...
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...
