Scottish Poetry Library Podcasts

  1. Episode 301: Nothing But The Poem - Daniel Sluman 2022/07/18
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  2. Episode 300: Nothing But the Poem - Jay Whittaker 2022/06/23
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  3. Episode 298: Poetry and Covid-19 (part one)2021/03/04
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  4. Episode 297: Happy 100th Birthday, Muriel Spark! With Rob A Mackenzie and Louise Peterkin 2020/12/11
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  5. Aileen Ballantyne2020/01/24
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  6. Alan Spence: Edinburgh Makar2019/12/20
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  7. Stewart Conn2019/12/04
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  8. Don Paterson on Aphorisms2019/01/31
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  9. Helen Mort2016/10/11
    Helen Mort is one of the UK's most exciting young voices. She came into the SPL to talk about her second book No Maps Could Show Them (Chatto & Windus) and to read poems from the collection. During the course of the interview, she talks about female pioneers of mountaineering, the strange health risks men believed running posed women, and the historical characters she's drawn to writing about.
  10. Sarah Howe2016/09/22
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  11. Shara McCallum2016/06/30
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  12. Alan Riach2016/06/07
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  13. Sophie Collins2016/04/27
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  14. William Bonar2016/02/29
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  15. Speaking in Tongues: Bilingual Poetry2015/08/27
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  16. John Dennison2015/07/23
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  17. Sheena Blackhall2015/07/08
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  18. [LineBreak] Kwame Dawes: This Is Our Heart2015/06/30
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  19. [SPL] June 2015: Yeats - A Celebration2015/06/09
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  20. [SPL] May 2015: Alice Notley2015/05/26
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  21. [SPL] April 2015: Chrys Salt2015/04/22
    Poet Chrys Salt talks about who has the right to write about certain subjects, about writing war poetry when you have a son who is a soldier, and how poetry can benefit from a good performance.

    Thanks to James Iremonger for the music in this podcast. https://jamesiremonger.wordpress.com/

    Image of Chrys Salt by Claire Newman-Williams.
  22. [SPL] April 2015: Marion McCready2015/04/08
    Marion McCready is at the forefront of the new wave of Scottish poets. A writer who succeeds in making nature sound unnatural, she has a unique vision of the landscape we inhabit which she captures in an intense, sometimes sinister, lyricism. In conversation with the SPL, she talks about how Christianity influences her work, and what she has against rhubarb.
  23. [SPL] March 2015: Jacob Polley2015/03/25
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  24. [SPL] February 2015: Sasha Dugdale2015/02/08
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  25. [SPL} January 2015: Salma2015/01/09
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  26. [SPL] December 2014: Quaich2014/12/04
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  27. [SPL] October: Gerry Loose2014/10/02
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  28. [SPL] September 2014: Miriam Gamble2014/09/04
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  29. [SPL] August: Robert Crawford2014/08/29
    Robert Crawford' latest collection Testament (Jonathan Cape) tries out a number of unfashionale styles of poetry, chiefly political and religious, both of which the title alludes to. In our latest podcast, he talks about tackling the subject of Scottish indepedence in poetry, his friend and collaborator, the late Mick Imlah, and translating Cavafy into Scots.
  30. [SPL] August: Jenny Lindsay2014/08/15
    Jenny Lindsay is co-creator of the popular 'poetry cabaret' Rally and Broad, a hit originally in Edinburgh that has spread its wings recently to Glasgow. In our latest podcast, we talk to Jenny about her poetry and the lively spoken word scene in Scotland today. Image by Alex Aitchison.
  31. [SPL] July 2014: Brian Johnstone2014/07/04
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