]We have learned with much sadness of the death this week of Brian Johnstone. He was one of StAnza’s founders and a major figure in this organisation’s history, as well…
Read More
StAnza, Scotland’s unique international poetry festival, is looking for new members to join the Board of Trustees. Having delivered a very successful online festival this year, StAnza is at an…
Our final guest editors, the Edinburgh Literary Salon share some of their highlights of the festival — many of which you can enjoy in our Events Archive until 31 March!…
Our Guest Editors, the Scottish BAME Writers Network, flag up some of the highlights of their programme.
StAnza’s Saturday events started off with an energetic discussion on the Breakfast at the Poetry CafÌ© live webcast. Before attending any of the events, I had hoped to have a…
When I was asked to blog about a day at StAnza, I wasn’t quite sure what I was getting into. Would it be a day of excitement and fun, or…
Before this, back then when we knew of only one normal and knew little, yet feared a lot we gathered in St Andrews. It was early Spring. We always gathered then in St Andrews. It was…
Thursday at StAnza kicked off with Rob A Mackenzie discussing Miroslav Holub, a Czech poet and immunologist who came of age, Mackenzie tells, us at the start of WW2. It…
Our guest editors for the day, Burning Eye Books, interview some StAnza 2021 poets. Burning Eye has a strong connection with StAnza. Many of our poets have appeared at the…
In her poem’hand-me-downs’, placed boldly near the very beginning of her debut collection Collective Amnesia, South African poet Koleka Putuma writes:’I have learnt how to say my glass is half full even…
Colin Waters from the Scottish Poetry Library shares news from the library. Has it been a year since the last StAnza? It seems like yesterdayÛ_and a decade, the temporal equivalent…
