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New video!
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At our May 2026 Showcase, spoken word artist Jasmine Gardosi shared this poem about restriction on speech using restricted speech.
Find out more about Jasmine's work at www.jasminegardosi.com
Thanks to Creative Scotland for supporting our work.
Stirling’s map offers 6 literary routes tracing the steps of Scotland’s great writers & the sites that inspired them, from the Golden Lion Hotel, where Robert Burns etched his “Stirling Lines” on a window, to the Trossachs of Walter Scott’s “The Lady of the Lake”
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Graeme Armstrong: Raveheart
22 June, Erskine – £12
@graemearmstrong.bsky.social discusses his new novel RAVEHEART: a high-octane narcotic trip of a story where underground rave culture clashes with a dystopian regime. Followed by a Q&A & book signing
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I mind when I was a bairnie hou ma mither
brocht out ae day a kist o skinklan things,
ferlies I thocht them, ilk mair rare nor anither,
aa kind o gowdies, stanes and chains and rings…
—Douglas Young, “Thesaurus Paleo-Scoticus”
10 June is #GiesAScotsPoemDay
#poem #poetry
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2026 marks the centenary of Hugh MacDiarmid’s “A Drunk Man Looks at the Thistle”. For #GiesAScotsPoemDay @brambrella.bsky.social invited some of the standard-bearers of present-day Scots poetry to compose new work responding to MacDiarmid & his legacy
www.scottishpoetrylibrary.org.uk/gies-a-scots...
Of Mice & Mountain Daisies: Robert Burns & Nature
17 June, Ellisland – tickets by donation
Examining how Burns experienced nature not simply as an observer, but as a poet whose existence was shaped by the land, the River Nith & the rhythms of rural life
#C18
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As part of the Govan Book Festival, we're open to visitors until 5pm this Saturday!
📚 The GBF event starts at 4:30pm and lasts until 5:30pm, after which attendees to Dr Tom Horne's chat about his book, Treasures of the Vikings, will be able to buy signed copies or browse our v cool Viking Age shop.
Five things that shaped you?
The book 📚 ‘Trainspotting’
@bbcradioscot played a blinder…
Shocked and humbled when the big chief Irvine Welsh jumped on to chat #Raveheart and young people reclaiming power through literature 💪🏴
#IrvineWelsh
#GrantStott
#BBCRadioScotland
#GraemeArmstrong
Explore Burns's writing about nature and the environment with acclaimed historians and authors, Neil Baxter & Mary Craig.
This year’s Gies a Scots Poem Day is something special. 2026 marks the centenary of Hugh MacDiarmid’s A Drunk Man Looks at the Thistle — a foundational work for contemporary poetry in Scots, and a poe...
www.scottishpoetrylibrary.org.uk
Graeme Armstrong
Video
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Fuck’s sake! Right:
Charlie’s nae The King,
Charles Kennedy’s Prime Minister
ae the first Independent Republic ae Caledonia…
—Colin Bramwell, “Manifesto ae Álvaro de Campos”
FOWER PESSOAS: a reimagining of Fernando Pessoa’s 🇵🇹 #poetry in Scots
#WyrdWednesday #poem
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