Pulsing with the energy of urban life, these poems traverse the gritty, playful and tender moments that shape our lives.

Sabhal Mòr Ostaig, the National Centre for Gaelic Language and Culture, has launched Scotland’s first-ever Gaelic Poetry Path ...

The Scottish poet and Anglican priest Andrew Young (1885–1971) was once called “the pet of the cognoscenti.” This is how Kenneth Allott referred to him in a roundup of verse plays for New Verse that ...

Doggerel! There I said it. Sometimes words just wander through my mind on their way to somewhere else. That one drifted through just the other morning as I was accompanying Lucy, the Ambassador of ...

honoring the birthday of Scottish poet Robert Burns. The romantic, two-room pub with candlelit tables and a partly shaded hidden back patio became the go-to spot in St. Louis for Scottish and ...

After a difficult few years, StAnza feels like a festival which has found its stride again, writes Susan Mansfield ...

Two Scottish Slam Poetry Champions Hamish MacDonald and Katharine Macfarlane will also host events. On Saturday, International Women’s Day will be celebrated with a day of creative writing ...

As the pre-orders roll in for Nicola Sturgeon’s memoir Frankly, speculation continues about the title.  The publisher's blurb would have ...

THE Limerick Writers' Centre has confirmed the return of April is Poetry Month in Limerick for 2025. The festival will ...

Young pupils from a Helensburgh primary school are to represent Argyll and Bute in a prestigious competition as they prepare to showcase ...

San Francisco’s Poet Laureate Tongo Eisen-Martin has been awarded Yale University’s prestigious Windham-Campbell Prize. The $175,000 literary award aims to provide writers the financial means to focus ...

A CLASS of bonnie lassies and lads put on a fine Scottish show as they paid tribute to the wonderful work of Robert Burns.