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Arts Debate of the Week Is there really anything worth celebrating on National Poetry Day?
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WHEN Scots were asked to name the most significant Scot of the
millennium, the favourite turned out to be Robert Burns. I'm glad
that there's a poet at the heart of Scotland's sense of itself and an
incontestably great poet at that.Yet, it's as though Burns were
sealed off in his greatness, instead of being afloat on the broad
river that is Scottish poetry, a river still in spate. Many people
who voted for him might be hard put to produce the name of a living
Scottish poet except perhaps for Edwin Morgan, always exceptional.
The roll-call of 20th-century dead white male poets is a daunting ...
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Ancient port for Scottish poems LIBRARY: ALEXANDRIA
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; ...later a delegation from the Scottish Poetry Library will be placing their texts...literature and asked the Scottish Poetry Library to contribute. "I'm thrilled...especially because the Scottish Poetry Library has always seen itself...
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A dream built on determination
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; ...purpose-built new premises of the Scottish Poetry Library hard by the new Scottish...shelves, may take the term Scottish Poetry Library to mean something fully...decorative adjunct to it, the Scottish Poetry Library functions as a beating...
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VERSE AMONG EQUALS
Newspaper article from: Evening News - Scotland
; ...founding director of the Scottish Poetry Library for the past 15 years...For the 60-year-old, the Scottish Poetry Library is not simply an institution...opened the doors of the Scottish Poetry Library in Tweeddale Court
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Scots poetry library's new director
Newspaper article from: The Scotsman
; ...as the director of the Scottish Poetry Library. Dr Robyn Marsack, who...national institution. The Scottish Poetry Library moved in the summer, with...translation, said: "The Scottish Poetry Library preserves the nation's...
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New home of poetry library opens its doors
Newspaper article from: Scotland on Sunday
; THE new home for Scotland's national poetry library was opened to the public yesterday. The Scottish Poetry Library has been re-sited at purpose-built premises in Edinburgh's Canongate area. The charity held an open day yesterday to give the public...the building will be an absolutely ...
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Vandals break glass in Poetry Library attack
Newspaper article from: Evening News - Scotland
; ...glass in the roof of the Scottish Poetry Library. A glass canopy was smashed...fairly substantial." The Scottish Poetry Library was founded in 1984 and...and English. But historic Scottish poetry and contemporary works from...
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Volume Control
Newspaper article from: The Scotsman
; ...mysteries of Edwin Muir. That the Scottish Poetry Library should come this far could...director, Tessa Ransford. The poetry library has, by donation and doggedness...will be entered when the poetry library moves in alongside the big...
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Taking poetry further out of its corner
Newspaper article from: The Scotsman
; ...post as director of the Scottish Poetry Library; for the library was founded...arts institutions, the Scottish Poetry Library is built not on bureaucracy...experience for running the Scottish Poetry Library even in its new outwardly...
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The Browser
Newspaper article from: The Scotsman
; ...polishing my Plutarch at the Scottish Poetry Library when its director, Robyn...with a postcard on which the poetry library has printed some...the coming thing at the Scottish Poetry Library, and there's infinitely more...
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Around town: Library booked in for essential maintenance work
Newspaper article from: Evening News - Scotland
; ESSENTIAL building maintenance is to close the Scottish Poetry Library over Christmas - opening again on January 17...library, e-mail reception@spl.org.uk or write to Scottish Poetry Library, 5 Crichton's Close, Canongate EH8 8DT.
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