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...
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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...
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: Dispatches from the Poetry Desk
18 Mar '21
We are proud of the Polygon poetry catalogue, which runs the gamut from the collected works of Norman MacCaig and Hamish Henderson, to volumes by...
World Poetry Day Staff Picks: Our Favourite Scottish Poems
18 Mar '21
The act of choosing a favourite can be all about the moment in time, it’s to capture a feeling, mood or resonance rather than to designate a...
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: 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...
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....
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...
The Light Comes Back: ‘The white bird’ by Norman MacCaig
16 Feb '21
‘Every year, in the third week of February,’ Kathleen Jamie writes in her collection Sightlines, ‘there is a day, or, more usually...
Two Love Poems by Edwin Morgan
08 Feb '21
As Jackie Kay writes in her introduction to twenty poems by Edwin Morgan about love, ‘Edwin Morgan knew all about love: its mysteries, its...
Poem of the Week: Landscape with the Fall of Icarus by Jim Carruth
01 Feb '21
Jim Carruth is Glasgow’s Poet Laureate, but don’t let images of that city dominate your sense of his work. He’s also the poet of...
