]We have asked several of the poets who took part at this year’s festival for their top tips for writing a good poem and we’ll be sharing their thoughts on…
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Join poet/tutor Polly Atkin for our StAnza Zoom summer workshop. ]In this online workshop we will focus on writing the very local, and the very everyday: the things we see…
From time to time we are happy to offer guests the opportunity to talk about poetry projects which impress us, but this may be the first poetry and health post…
]Happy midsummer! We all miss live events but while these are not possible, it’s great to see what a glorious array of poetry on audio and video is available currently…
Micro StAnza Commission Throughout the Covid-19 pandemic, people have been turning to poetry and discovering how suited it is to the digital world we have had to learn to inhabit….
]The poesiefestival Berlin is usually a summer highlight for many. Before the pandemic it was due to go ahead from 5 to 11 June, and they’ve jumped through hoops to…
100 years ago today, Edwin Morgan was born. He was Scotland’s first National Poet, revered internationally and admired and loved at home, a touchstone, a standard to which we hold…
We are pleased today to host a guest blog post by Colin Waters, Communications Manager at the Scottish Poetry Library, introducing their new initiative, #PoetryforCarers, which they will launch on…
ÛÏI hope, we hope. So many conversations, messages, emails or letters sent to you or by you in the last months begin with these words. Hope is the final, ultimate…
As we continue through these difficult days of lockdown, we’ve been sharing more content from this year’s festival online. A summary of what we’ve shared to date is now available…
Poetry Online: for this year’s festival we commissioned six new poems, with translations of two of them, plus the translation of a seventh poem for our digital installation Coast Lines….
