Our latest podcast is a Best Scottish Poems 2012 special, featuring readings by Kathleen Jamie, Liz Lochhead, Robin Robertson, John Burnside, and many more. Best Scottish Poems is the Scottish Poetry Librarys annual online anthology of the 20 Best Scottish Poems, edited each year by a different editor. Bookshops and libraries – with honourable exceptions – often provide a very narrow range of poetry, and Scottish poetry in particular. Best Scottish Poems offers readers in Scotland and abroad a way of sampling the range and achievement of our poets, their languages, forms, concerns. It is in no sense a competition but a personal choice, and this years editors, the novelists Louise Welsh and Zoë Strachan, checked and balanced each other’s predilections. Their introduction demonstrates how widely they read, and how intensely. The preceding years’ selections are still available on this site. This special podcast features readings by established voices and emerging talent. Image: Seaweed by Lucy Burnett
Posted on: Thu, 16 Jan 2014 16:36:28 +0000
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