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Scottish Poetry Library Podcast

Scottish Poetry Library

Podcasts from the Scottish Poetry Library, the world’s leading resource for poetry from Scotland and beyond.

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17:27

Nothing But The Poem - Naomi Shihab Nye

Scottish Poetry Library Podcast ·

2025/06/26

The prize-winning and former Chancellor of the Academy of American Poets, Naomi Shihab Nye is the subject of this month’s Nothing But The Poem podcast. Known for poetry that lends a fresh perspective to ordinary events, people, and objects, Nye has said that, for her, “the primary source of poetry has always been local life, random characters met on the streets, our own ancestry sifting down to us through small essential daily tasks.” (Poetryfoundation.org) Our resident podcast host Sam Tongue

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15:58

Nothing But the Poem - Ngwatilo Mawiyoo

Scottish Poetry Library Podcast ·

2025/06/09

The multidimensional Kenyan poet, filmmaker and writer Ngwatilo Mawiyoo is the subject of this month’s Nothing But The Poem podcast.Keguro Macharia, in The New Inquiry, writes that Ngwatilo’s poetry "draws out my own memories [which] speaks to its generative power: its particularity is generous, opening ways for readers to encounter and inhabit it." Hers is a voice that insists on the personal and political being unified. Our resident podcast host Sam Tongue selected: Found: Portrait Of Umau’s

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30:56

From the Archive: Eddie Linden. May 2013

Scottish Poetry Library Podcast ·

2025/06/08

Who was Eddie Linden (1935-2023)?A poet, an editor, and a man with an extraordinary range of contacts and friends who ranged from Tom Leonard to Harold Pinter. Linden was a person who achieved much considering his incredibly tough childhood. Born illegitimate, he was passed from pillar to post as a boy in Glasgow. Later, he suffered much anguish when his Roman Catholicism conflicted with his sexuality. In the 1960s, after moving to London, he began an extraordinary literary magazine Aquarius,

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18:32

Wild Writing talk to the SPL

Scottish Poetry Library Podcast ·

2025/03/26

Lorna Fleming and Anna Gray lead small groups of (mostly) women to let loose their wild side, to dive in to their unconscious and find their buried treasure. Wild Writers are creatives, public sector workers, teenagers or any other type of human who is boldly and often messily transforming on their hero’s or heroine’s journey.Ahead of their workshops at the SPL in April and May 2025, Kevin Williamson chats to Lorna and Anna about their wild work. Tickets for the SPL Wild Writing workshops are

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54:57

From the Archive: Best Scottish Poems 2012

Scottish Poetry Library Podcast ·

2025/03/23

Best Scottish Poems is the Scottish Poetry Library’s 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 year’s

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50:36

From the Archive: MacGillivray. February 2014

Scottish Poetry Library Podcast ·

2025/03/16

In this podcast the poet and artist MacGillivray reads from and discusses her book, The Last Wolf of Scotland (Pighog). The collection is an exploration of connections between Scotland and the American Frontier whose form brilliantly reflects the subject matter of the poems. MacGillivray joins Jennifer Williams in a conversation that maps the rich web of influences from which her poetry emerges, taking in Doors front-man Jim Morrison, mock ancient Scottish bard Ossian, and the mysterious ‘Man with

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48:43

From the Arcive: Kae (Kate)Tempest. September 2013

Scottish Poetry Library Podcast ·

2025/03/09

In this 2013 podcast, Jennifer Williams talks to poet, playwright and recording artist Kate Tempest* about hip hop, poetry, their play Brand New Ancients, mythology, world peace and much more. Kate has written plays for Paines Plough and the Battersea Arts Centre, written poetry for the Royal Shakespeare Company, Channel 4 and the BBC, worked in schools and won the Ted Hughes Award for New Work in Poetry 2012, for Brand New Ancients. *In 2020 the musician and poet formerly named Kate Tempest

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13:21

Nothing But The Poem - Niall Campbell

Scottish Poetry Library Podcast ·

2025/02/06

Niall Campbell is the subject of this month's Nothing But The Poem podcast. The South Uist poet has had three collections of poetry published, has won many major poetry prizes, and is currently poetry editor of Poetry London.‘Noctuary is a homage to night-time, to "that midnight thrill of being alive", to the small, stray moments that make up a life. It is also a passionately tender examination of what it means to have and care for a small child.’ – Suzannah V. Evans, Times Literary

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14:17

Nothing But The Poem - Victoria Chang

Scottish Poetry Library Podcast ·

2025/01/21

Victoria Chang is the subject of this month's Nothing But The Poem podcast. The Taiwanese-American poet has had seven collections of poetry published, her most recent - With My Back To The World (2024) - winning the Forward Prize for Best Poetry Collection.'Chang has liberated the Ekphrastic form to new lyric heights and depths. Inventive, meditative, audacious, strange and soulful ... that engages the eye and mind as much as the ear and heart' - Raymond Antrobus 'Chang invites readers to query

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01:08:18

Celebrating 30 years of Dream State with its editor...

Scottish Poetry Library Podcast ·

2024/12/17

In this extended version of Nothing But The Poem Kevin Williamson interviews Donny O'Rourke, editor of Dream State - The New Scottish Poets which was published in 1994 and remains the gold standard of poetry anthologies, and, arguably, the most visionary poetry anthology ever published in Scotland.Dream State's contributors were all aged under 40 at the time and were assembled by fellow poet and broadcaster Donny O'Rourke. Only 6 of these poets - John Burnside, Carol Ann Duffy, Kathleen Jamie,

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13:50

Nothing But The Poem - Gboyega Odubanjo

Scottish Poetry Library Podcast ·

2024/10/31

The poetry community was shocked and saddened when the much-loved young poet Gboyega Odubanjo died last year. Since then a full length collection of his poetry titled Adam has been published posthumously by Faber; and the Gboyega Odubanjo Foundation for low-income Black writers has been established to honour his legacy.His poetry hit many raw nerves among readers. Fellow poet Luke Kennard praised his work as 'Deep, funny, thought provoking - a powerful evocation of culture and family with the most

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11:44

Nothing But The Poem - Caroline Bird

Scottish Poetry Library Podcast ·

2024/09/17

Our usual host, Sam Tongue, puts two poems by the wonderful Yorkshire poet Caroline Bird, under the groupchat microscope. Caroline Bird has published eight collections of poetry to date; usually to great acclaim, awards and rave reviews. Her latest collection, Ambush at Still Lake (Carcanet) has her trademark surreal wit, and is a kaleidoscope of startling imagery, lyrical unexpectedness, and is typically hard to classify, but so easy to fall in love with.UK Poet Laureate, Simon Armitage said of

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49:44

Hai-Aidh! Pod-chraolaidh #6 - Niall O’Gallagher agus...

Scottish Poetry Library Podcast ·

2024/06/24

Ann an Hai-Àidh #6, thagh Niall O’Gallagher ‘Bisearta’ le Deòrsa Mac Iain Dheòrsa agus Alasdair C. MacIlleBhàin ‘Gur fad ’am thàmh mi gu tostach sàmhach’ le Dòmhnall Eachainn à Muile. Tha Niall agus Alasdair a’ leughadh nan dàin agus a’ bruidhinn orra, a’ lorg cheanglaichean eadar bàrdachd-cogaidh anns an fhicheadamh linn agus bàrdachd nam Fuadaichean anns an naoidheamh linn deug, agus a’ beachdachadh air an dàimh eadar snas an fhoirm agus cuspairean aognaidh. For Hai-Àidh #6, Niall

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15:02

Nothing But The Poem - Alexander 'Sandy' Hutchison

Scottish Poetry Library Podcast ·

2024/06/10

The much-loved and much-missed Scottish poet and translator, Alexander 'Sandy' Hutchison, is the latest subject of the Nothing But The Poem podcast, presented by our regular host, Samuel Tongue.David Kinloch said of his work: "Alexander Hutchison's poetry is elegant, flighty and absurdist by turns." WN Herbert wrote: "Sandy Hutchison's poetry exhibits a gleeful acquisitive fascination with the language." "A mentor, a bristling master, and a total original." - August Kleinzahler The two poems by

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08:08

Moon Tell Me Truth: audio accompaniment

Scottish Poetry Library Podcast ·

2024/05/31

A short audio recording to accompany the Moon Tell Me Truth exhibition at the Scottish Poetry Library.

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19:21

Hai-Aidh! Pod-chraolaidh #5 - Joy Dunlop agus Peigi...

Scottish Poetry Library Podcast ·

2024/05/29

Ann an Hai-Àidh #5, thagh Peigi Nic a’ Phiocair ‘Oidhche Na' Mo Chadal Dhomh’ le Nellie Ruadh, dàn a chaidh lorg o chionn ghoirid ann an tasglann, agus Joy Dunlop ‘An Roghainn’, aon de Dàin do Eimhir le Somhairle MacGill-Eain, mar òran le fonn ùr a rinn Dòmhnall Seathach. Tha Peigi agus Joy a’ leughadh, a’ seinn, agus a’ còmhradh air briathran blasta agus faireachdainnean làidir. For Hai-Àidh #5, Peigi MacVicar picks Nellie Ruadh’s song ‘Oidhche Na' Mo Chadal Dhomh’, a recent archival

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15:18

Nothing But The Poem - Nuala Watt

Scottish Poetry Library Podcast ·

2024/05/23

Our usual host, Sam Tongue, is back from paternity leave, and between feeds and nappy changes has recorded the latest episode of our regular Nothing But The Poem poetry podcast. Special thank you to Aoife Lyall for stepping in and producing 3 wonderful NBTP podcasts on Jane Clarke, Eavan Boland and Billy Collins. Much appreciated.Sam's subject this month is Nuala Watt, an emerging poet, whose work is increasingly recognised for its unique voice, formal daring, and fierce authenticity. Nuala Watt is

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17:22

Hai-Aidh! Pod-chraolaidh #4 - Meg Bateman agus Joy...

Scottish Poetry Library Podcast ·

2024/05/14

Ann an Hai-Àidh #4, thagh Meg Bateman ‘Cànan na Deighe’ le Beth Frieden agus Joy Dunlop ‘Nam Aonar le Mo Smaointean’ le Iain MacLeòid. Tha Meg agus Joy a’ leughadh nan dàin agus a’ bruidhinn orra, a’ lorg ceanglaichean eadar dàn a tha cho ùr ’sa ghabhas agus òran tradaiseanta. Cuspairean a’ mhìos: dàimh ri àite, fuaimean fuachd, agus bàrdachd mar tùs-ùrachaidh agus mar chomas-iongantais. In Hai-Àidh #4, Meg Bateman chose ‘Cànan na Deighe’ by Beth Frieden, and Joy Dunlop brought in ‘Nam Aonar

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22:58

Nothing But The Poem - Eavan Boland

Scottish Poetry Library Podcast ·

2024/04/04

Eavan Boland is the latest subject of the Nothing But The Poem podcast. With our regular podcast host Sam Tongue on paternity leave this edition has Bloodaxe poet Aoife Lyall taking an immersive look into two of Eavan Boland's poems, which were discussed at the online monthly meet-up of the Nothing But The Poem group.Eavan Boland is one of the central figures of modern Irish poetry, a poet who, according to her publishers Carcanet, "came to be known for her exquisite ability to weave myth, history,

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26:36

Nothing But The Poem - Jane Clarke

Scottish Poetry Library Podcast ·

2024/03/20

Jane Clarke is the latest subject of the Nothing But The Poem podcast. Jane Clarke is an Irish poet; the author of three poetry collections and an illustrated poetry booklet. Our regular podcast host Sam Tongue is currently on paternity leave and this edition has Bloodaxe poet Aoife Llyall taking an immersive look into three of Jane Clarke's poems, which were discussed at the online monthly meet-up of the Nothing But The Poem group.Poet Carol Rumens wrote that Jane Clarke's poems were "rooted in

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