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Ideas box…
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Open the ideas box
Open the Ideas box
when you feel like reading anything from an individual poem to a full
collection. Sometimes you find the best books by chance, browsing along
bookshelves, spotting an intriguing review, or getting a tip from a friend.
The ink might still be drying – nearly – or you might be prompted
to look up the classic you've meant to read for years…
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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. |
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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. |
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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. |
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Favourite Poems
Join some of the fascinating writers and other guests in the Scottish
Poetry Library's Favourite poems series, and discover which poems
they love. Desert Island Discs, with poems. |
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Classic
Poems
You'll find a new poem every month on our parent website at www.spl.org.uk.
Our classic poem is its companion, to remind you of all the wonderful
poems to rediscover. |
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Close
Encounters
Meet leading writers and readers in the Close Encounters series,
run by the Scottish Poetry Library, with The Poetry School. |
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SPL Online
Poetry Resources
We've been building up online poetry resources. Find brand-new
work, international poetry and lives of poets – these sections
are expanding all the time. |
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