Living Voices
Poetry, story and song across Scotland Living Voices was a national programme developed by the Scottish Poetry Library and the Scottish Storytelling Centre. It offered older people, usually in care...
View ArticleLanguage is Where the People Are: W.S. Graham at 100
A celebration of the Scottish poet’s centenary. The title of the centenary project is taken from Graham’s poem ‘The Dark Dialogues’, and reflects key themes in the author’s work: the difficulty of...
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Tools of the Trade: Poems for New Doctors
Tools of the Trade is a pocket-sized anthology of around 50 poems, to help think about compassion and about personal resilience in the challenging situations faced by all junior doctors. It is edited...
View ArticlePoems for Teachers
Newly-qualified teachers in 2018 and 2019 will be welcomed with a gift that lets them know they are not alone, whatever challenges they meet. To Learn the Future: Poems for teachers is a pocket-sized...
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Creative Words for Wellbeing in Scotland
Libraries, public organisations and practitioners across Scotland are collaborating on Creative Words for Wellbeing in Scotland, a new project using reading and writing to improve the health of the...
View ArticlePoetry Helps: Poems for Social Workers
The Scottish Poetry Library is working alongside the University of Edinburgh and Edinburgh Napier University on a poetry anthology for newly qualified social workers in Scotland. The project builds on...
View ArticlePocket Poetry: Poems for Nurses and Midwives
Using the inspiration of Tools of the Trade, this current project was initiated by Dr Martina Balaam of Edinburgh University, sparked by the Nursing Now Global campaign and plans for the Year of the...
View ArticleChampions
Since lockdown necessarily halted our plans for physically engaging with audiences and writing communities beyond Edinburgh, the SPL chose to expand its reach digitally, whilst at the same time...
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Poems for Social Workers
The Scottish Poetry Library has joined with project partners the Scottish Association of Social Work, and social work academics and poetry enthusiasts Dr Autumn Roesch-Marsh and Dr Ariane Critchley....
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