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Scottish Poetry Library Podcast

Scottish Poetry Library

Monthly podcasts from the Scottish Poetry Library, hosted by Colin Waters.

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Listen to Scottish Poetry Library Podcast, a Arts podcast by Scottish Poetry Library. Stream 31 episodes in English, follow new audio stories, and play episodes online on Radio and Podcast.

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Episode 298: Poetry and Covid-19 (part one)

A year into the Covid-19 era, the publisher Shearsman Books is putting out a new title, Poetry and Covid 19 – An Anthology of Contemporary I...

19:00Mar 4, 2021

Aileen Ballantyne

Before becoming a poet, Aileen Ballantyne was a journalist, and it's her former profession that informs her poetry, not least in a sequence...

29:37Jan 24, 2020

Alan Spence: Edinburgh Makar

In June 2019, poet, playwright and novelist Alan Spence performed at the Library to mark his first year as the Makar or Poet Laureate of Edi...

29:47Dec 20, 2019

Stewart Conn

Over a decade has passed since Stewart Conn was Edinburgh's Makar or Poet Laureate, yet the city continues to exert its influence upon him....

31:44Dec 4, 2019

Don Paterson on Aphorisms

Towards the end of 2018, Don Paterson came to the Scottish Poetry Library to discuss his latest book, The Fall at Home: New and Collected Ap...

20:46Jan 31, 2019

Helen Mort

Helen Mort is one of the UK's most exciting young voices. She came into the SPL to talk about her second book No Maps Could Show Them (Chatt...

34:32Oct 11, 2016

Sarah Howe

In this podcast, the poet Sarah Howe talks to Jennifer Williams about kicking off the 2016 Edinburgh International Book Festival, writing wi...

41:15Sep 22, 2016

Shara McCallum

In this podcast Jennifer Williams speaks to Jamaican-born, American-based poet Shara McCallum about her new Robert Burns poetry project whic...

47:51Jun 30, 2016

Alan Riach

Over 250 years ago, Alasdair Mac Mhaighstir Alasdair (Alexander MacDonald) wrote The Birlinn of Clanranald (Kettillonia, £5), an epic poem i...

36:45Jun 7, 2016

Sophie Collins

In this podcast, Jennifer Williams talks to Sophie Collins about experimenting with starting points for creating poems, including using onli...

64:23Apr 27, 2016

William Bonar

In this podcast Jennifer Williams interviews poet William Bonar about the publication of his most recent pamphlet, Offering (Red Squirrel Pr...

41:32Feb 29, 2016

Speaking in Tongues: Bilingual Poetry

In this podcast guest interviewer and multi-lingual writer and translator Jessica Johannesson Gaitán talks to 3 bilingual poets about what i...

36:24Aug 27, 2015

John Dennison

In this podcast Jennifer Williams talks to New Zealand poet John Dennison about his new book Otherwise (Carcanet, 2015). They discuss the po...

36:58Jul 23, 2015

Sheena Blackhall

Sheena Blackhall is a poet, novelist, short story writer, illustrator, traditional story teller and singer who is the author, as the podcast...

32:28Jul 8, 2015

[LineBreak] Kwame Dawes: This Is Our Heart

This month on The Line Break, Ryan re-visits an interview with poet and journalist Kwame Dawes and discusses the challenges of writing poetr...

26:59Jun 30, 2015

[SPL] June 2015: Yeats - A Celebration

This year marks the 150th anniversary of the birth of William Butler Yeats, the extraordinary Irish poet. His work reflects and sometimes op...

60:48Jun 9, 2015

[SPL] May 2015: Alice Notley

This podcast is a recording of the 2015 StAnza International Poetry Festival Round Table event in which SPL Programme Manager and poet Jenni...

50:47May 26, 2015

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