Scottish Poetry Library Podcast
Episodes
Nothing But The Poem - Roddy Lumsden
08 Feb 2023
Contributed by Lukas
In this podcast, Scottish Poetry Library's Sam Tongue introduces us to three poems by the late Scottish poet, Roddy Lumsden, whose influence continues...
Nothing But the Poem : Will Harris
01 Dec 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Scottish Poetry Library’s Sam Tongue runs a monthly online meet-up, where Friends of the Poetry Library get together to read and discuss a fresh ...
Nothing But The Poem: Hannah Hodgson
23 Aug 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Scottish Poetry Library’s Sam Tongue runs a monthly online meet-up, where Friends of the Poetry Library get together to read and discuss a fresh ...
Christian McEwen
17 Aug 2022
Contributed by Lukas
This podcast with author Christian McEwen was recorded in the summer of 2013. Christian talks about her book World Enough & Time: On Creativity and S...
Christine De Luca
17 Aug 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Edinburgh’s former Makar, or poet laureate, Christine De Luca wasn’t born in the capital. In this podcast, she tells us about her childhood in She...
William Letford
17 Aug 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Nicholas Lezard called William Letford ‘the new Scottish genius’, a judgement the SPL is not inclined to disagree with. With a new collection, Dir...
Alice Notley
17 Aug 2022
Contributed by Lukas
This podcast is a recording of the 2015 StAnza International Poetry Festival Round Table event in which SPL Programme Manager and poet Jennifer (JL) ...
John Burnside on W.S. Graham
12 Aug 2022
Contributed by Lukas
The SPL is pleased to be able to share a treasure from our audio archives: from 2008, a talk by poet and novelist John Burnside on fellow Scottish poe...
Beverley Bie Brahic
12 Aug 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Beverley Bie Brahic is a Canadian poet and translator who lives in Paris, France and the San Francisco Bay Area. Her poetry collection, White Sheets, ...
Nancy Campbell
12 Aug 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Nancy Campbell is a poet and non-fiction writer who grew up in the Scottish Borders. A series of residencies with Arctic research institutions bet...
William Bonar
12 Aug 2022
Contributed by Lukas
In this podcast Jennifer Williams interviews poet William Bonar about the publication of his most recent pamphlet, Offering (Red Squirrel Press, 2015...
Sophie Collins
12 Aug 2022
Contributed by Lukas
In this podcast, Jennifer Williams talks to Sophie Collins about experimenting with starting points for creating poems, including using online transl...
Shara McCallum
12 Aug 2022
Contributed by Lukas
In this podcast Jennifer Williams speaks to Jamaican-born, American-based poet Shara McCallum about her new Robert Burns poetry project which brought...