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Carry a poem

We want you to Carry a Poem with us in February 2010!

Edinburgh's annual City of Literature reading campaign is to hold a month of poetry events, and give away thousands of free books & poetry pocketcards. How do you carry yours?

Boat by Peggy Hughes

Classic poem

Francis Bickmore on 'The Rime of the Ancient Mariner'

I first met this poem at exactly the time I discovered The Yellow Submarine. It pushed all the same gleeful buttons in my fifteen-year-old brain. Just like The Beatles' animation, The Ancient Mariner is a psychedelic sea voyage, a tale of the unexpected and a playground of sight, sound and uncertain mysticism…

Scottish Arts Council  Paul Hamlyn Foundation

Now playing…

  Carry a Poem Special
Colin takes in the atmosphere at the One Book One Edinburgh Carry a Poem Campaign launch, chatting to people about the poems they carry, and being quizzed by Ryan about the ones he carries.

Pick of the sites...

Carry a poem Carry a Poem
We're joining forces with the UNESCO Edinburgh City of Lit for the February 2010 reading campaign...

Global Poetry System Southbank CentreGlobal Poetry System
Poems are on pages, and on the stage, on walls and in heads. You just have to find it and map it...

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Scottish Poetry Library EventsReading groups dates at the Central Library in Edinburgh, and other event highlights...

Favourite poems...

Brian Taylor. Photo by Eugene TheodoreBrian Taylor reveals his favourite poems...

Readers' Quarterly 12

Lochead, Heaney, Caplan and Marks

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Poetry Issues 6

Cutting the ribbon

Poetry news for librarians
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Poetry ideas…

The Scottish Poetry Library Poetry Box

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