The Scottish Poetry Library is proud to present its Christmas event, Die Bard, a poetic rendering of the classic action-slash-Christmas movie Die Hard. Last year, they transformed It’s A Wonderful Life into a sequence of newly commissioned poems, and this year they’re repeating the trick with Bruce Willis’ finest moment. …
Jacob Polley is a poet and novelist whose latest collection Jackself won the T.S. Eliot Prize and was described as ‘a firework of a book’. His poetry is complex, inventive and exciting. Learn more here.
This exhibition celebrates some of the women of the small press movement, featuring work from the Scottish Poetry Library’s small press archive and pamphlet collections. ‘Women and The Small Press’ displays these pieces together for the first time, allowing them to converse with each other and with the SPL’s other …
Midweek Poems with Open Book is a weekly shared reading group, free and open to the public. Bring your appreciation of good poetry and listening ears as we read aloud and discuss several poems. Whether you are new to poetry or a long time reader, come join in as we …
The Scottish Poetry Library offers a seasonal chance to chat and schmooze with poets, with short readings (starting 2.15pm) from new pamphlets by popular poets M.R. Peacocke and D.A. Prince, and debut authors Geoff Lander and Helen Nicholson. From light verse on heavy science to the secret life of bookmarks …