]Sunshine or rain notwithtstanding, pay a visit to the wonderful McTaggart’s Scottish Shorelines, Paintings from East and West, which has just opened at St Andrews Museum for the summer. It…
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]The Afterword page for the StAnza 2011 spring festival has now gone live with a whole gallery of photographs from the events, and snapshots of all that was going on at venues and around…
]And yet more poetry competition news. Warmest congratulations to Anna Crowe, StAnza Trustee and first Artistic Director, whose pamphlet, Figure in Landscape, yesterday won her publishers Mariscat Press the 2011…
]Four Scottish poets who all appeared at StAnza 2011 – Emily Ballou, Tom Pow, Ryan Van Winkle and William Letford – are involved in a poetry translation project during the…
]Not many poets can bring Marlene Dietrich, Nietzsche and WC Fields together in one poem and act out the speaking parts. Or, more darkly, to imitate the cry of a…
] While the festival was in full swing back in March, Colin Fraser, StAnza's social media officer and his team were out and about, recording as much as they could…
] Next Friday sees the long awaited arrival of the US poet August Kleinzahler in St Andrews for an evening of poetry and conversation. It’s a chance not to be…
August Kleinzahler’s reading for StAnza is approaching fast, less than two weeks now, and even before that, as part of a week of activities in St Andrews, two poetry events…
]Poetry has, not surprisingly, played its part in the run-up to the Royal Wedding tomorrow. Last Saturday, the Poet Laureate, Carol Ann Duffy, presented a collection of ‘wedding vows’, published…
] Sunday’s Observer included poetry in the news section twice. An article about analogue versus digital in the arts featured poet Claire Askew – who took part in one of…
