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Ancient port for Scottish poems LIBRARY: ALEXANDRIA
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IN ancient times, Ptolemy III of Egypt ruled that everyone
entering the port of Alexandria must hand over any scrolls and books
they carried to be copied and placed in the ancient library. Two
thousand years later a delegation from the Scottish Poetry Library
will be placing their texts in the city's new library under the
auspices of goodwill rather than pharaonic decree.
Scottish poems translated to and from Gaelic and Scots, covering
topics ranging from the Battle of Bannockburn to T...
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Ancient port for Scottish poems LIBRARY: ALEXANDRIA
The Sunday Herald
; IN ancient times, Ptolemy III of Egypt ruled that everyone entering the port of Alexandria must hand over any scrolls and books they carried to be copied and placed in the ancient library. Two thousand years later a delegation from the Scottish Poetry Library will be placing their texts in the
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Good reason for a rhyme
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