Poetry ideas

Lucky Dip

Dip into poems for places, occasions, family, friends. Tell yourself you will pick just one single poem to try before you leave this page.

Novel Approach

Perhaps you haven't tried any poetry for ages. Where to start? Novel Approach lists popular novels and suggests a contemporary poetry collection that gets to the heart of each one.

Poetry Box

Poetry boxes live at each of our outlying collections. We add updated or brand-new material here, so feel free to download for your own use.

For librarians

Do you want ideas and confidence to help make poetry one of your library’s success stories? This section will help you foreground poetry in the life of your library.

For writers

The Scottish Poetry Library can help lift your writing to a new level!

Selected links

The Scottish Poetry Library develops a wide range of online poetry resources. Here you'll find brand new work, poet biographies, international poetry and much more.