‘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... Read More
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... Read More
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... Read More
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... Read More
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... Read More
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.... Read More
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... Read More
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... Read More
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... Read More
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... Read More
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... Read More
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... Read More