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Readers' Quarterly
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Scottish Poetry Library Readers' Quarterly
Check your festive priorities before it all kicks off.
1) have you borrowed enough poetry books to tide you over? And 2) do the
fairylights still work? Our new acquisition, Communications Officer Peggy
Hughes, cleverly does both at once with the help of our Education Officer
Lorna Irvine.
Have you seen… ?
Poems on buses for Human Rights Day
…across Edinburgh and Glasgow? Scottish and refugee poets wrote the five poems, in a project supported by Oxfam and the Scottish Poetry Library. If you saw the poems, mail us and tell us what you thought - and if you didn't, you can still find two of the poems on postcards at libraries in Edinburgh and Glasgow.
Have you heard…?
 SPL
News
Poet Partners will be working with SPL outreach collections in
Orkney, Elgin and Bearsden in 2008. SPL collections in Ayr, Dumfries
and Galloway and Shetland will be continuing their Poet Partner
work. Watch the SPL
Events pages for news of what they'll be doing!
The TS
Eliot Prize will be announced on 14 January - the shortlist
includes Edwin
Morgan's A Book of Lives… which of the shortlisted
titles do you want to read first?
Don't despair if you missed Michael
Longley selection of Louis MacNeice this autumn.
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SPL
Events
A brilliant National Poetry Day reading, the 'By Leaves
We Live' fair and a host of autumn events have been keeping us out
of mischief, and we're really happy so many of you came along.
You can book now for events round Valentine's Day - make the most
of this sneak preview now, because tickets for the likes of John
Hegley's 'Poetry Party', Don
Paterson's close reading session, and love poems chosen
by UA
Fanthorpe and Rosie Bailey won't be sitting around for long…
And did you know we list all the poetry
events in Scotland that we hear about? Keep ahead of poetry
events in Scotland by subscribing to our free email list.
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 Did you know…?
…this year's Best Scottish Poems selection is now live?
Published on St Andrew's Day every year, 'Best
Scottish Poems' is becoming a more and more popular read on our website,
and shows a fascinating cross-section of the poetry published by Scottish
poets each year. From large publishing houses to small magazines, this
year's guest editor Alan Spence has searched far and wide and done you
proud for 2007…
Have you read…?
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 Do Ray Me, When Ah Wis Wee: Scots Children's Songs and Rhymes
It's hard to resist simply browsing this book's anthology sections for the rhymes you remember. But you'll quickly be drawn into the Ewan McVicar's fascinating studies of constant changes and additions, the origins of songs you've never thought about, the songs your children are now singing (are you sure you want to know?), the old and new tunes…
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 Barcelona Amor Final
Just one of the new books on our shelves, this extraordinary book
is pretty far removed from Scottish playgrounds: Barcelona as you
have never seen it, the rivetingly personal account of this city
by a major living poet. In Catalan, followed by a Spanish version
with an English translation by Anna
Crowe, the lyric and prose poems are interspersed with haunting
black and white photographs.
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 Do you know a librarian…?
We'd be delighted if you'd tell them about Poetry
Issues. The Scottish Poetry Library's new e-newsletter for Librarians
is stuffed with information and tips on using poetry in events, displays,
reading groups and other activities. Ask your librarian to try Poetry
Issues. If they like Issue
1, they can subscribe free online!
Have you found…?
Did you know that using our unique online catalogue
INSPIRE you can search for poetry by theme? Look for apt quotations for
your next presentation, a school project, or simply to suit your mood.
Winter Stay in, rather than shiver
in the unpredictable weather, and search for wintry poems…
 Search
the SPL catalogue for poems about 'Winter'
1990s Use ScotBib to explore an entire decade instead of a single year…
Explore
poetry in the 1990s using ScotBib
Where are we…?
 SPL
in Orkney
As well as our award-winning Edinburgh building,
the Scottish Poetry Library now has fourteen outlying poetry collections
round Scotland, and counting. The latest is in Orkney - read all about
it.
What's next…?
In the March Readers' Quarterly
discover the first crop of books from 2008, look ahead to our Spring events
programme, and find out what's happening at your nearest outreach collections…
What do you think of the Readers' Quarterly?
Mail comments and suggestions to Lilias
Fraser, SPL's Reader Development Officer.
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Issue 5, Winter 2007
Have you seen…?
…Poems on buses ?
Refugees' poems in Glasgow and Edinburgh buses.
Have you heard…?
… news, events, prizes
Poet Partners, T S Elliot Prize shortlist, bookings for Valentine's Day.
Did you know…?
Best Scottish Poems 2007 is live!
Alan Spence's choice of the best Scottish poems published in 2007.
Have you read…?
Picks for winter
Something for your inner child, and for your dreams of travel…
Have you found…?
Finding winter poems
winter searches in SPL's unique online poetry catalogue, INSPIRE
Where are we…?
SPL poetry collections
and news from the newest collection in Orkney
…and much much more
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