Developments at the Scottish Poetry Library

Have you heard?developments at the Scottish Poetry Library

1984 - SPL Founded. Moves into premises at Tweeddale Court

March 1999 - Move to purpose built premises at Crichtons Close

April 2003 - SPLs 10th outreach collection launched in Shetland– SPL employs National Poetry Audience Development Officer

June 2003 SPL employs Marketing Officer

Autumn 2003 to Spring 2004 - Expansion of office space at Crichtons Close

Thursday 20 May 2004 - ‘Poetry arrived in search of me’: Neruda Centenary Celebration and Friday 28 May 2004 - 'Love and a Life' with Liz Lochhead both events sell out

Sunday 22 August 2004 - ‘Love and Marriage’ launch of Handfast at the Edinburgh International Book Festival.

Have you seen?www.spl.org.uk

Contacts Collections Friends of the SPL Borrowing Audio and Braille Holdings Popular Poems Bookshop Poets’ Voices Events Poets A-Z Lost for Words EPIC (European Poetry information centre) Poets’ Pub INSPIRE and the SPI

Lost for Words? Can you help us find these quotations? When did the Martians come to Glasgow? If

you know - or even just know a poem about the event - please tell us!

Recited by a Scottish lady missionary in Bangladesh - a humorous poem about a woman who washed her underwear on a Sunday, watched with horror by the other villagers …

In the 19th century there was a poor character in Glasgow who suffered from an abnormal appetite. Known as Rab Ha', the Glasgow Glutton, he must have had a popular poem written about him, which we are trying to find. Our enquirer is now in his 70s, and remembers saying the lines as a child in Clydebank.

We are looking for a poem in Scots called 'The Apothecary'; we have tried Charles Murray, David Rorie, W.D. Cocker etc. with no luck - any other ideas?

EPICbrowse European poetry resources

Poets A-Z Translating Poets Events

• Poet(es) Passages• A New Alliance• Home and Away• Northern Light;• Nordic-Celtic Connections• Voyages and Versions

Featured Translation canned searches international links

• organisations, poets and translation sections

Poets’ Pub The featured poets and writings are: Hugh MacDiarmid, Sangschaw (1925) Sorley MacLean, 17 Poems for 6d: in

Gaelic, Scots and English (1940) (with Robert Garioch)

Sydney Goodsir Smith, Under the Eildon Tree (1948)

Norman MacCaig, The Sinai Sort (1957) Edwin Morgan, The Second Life (1968) Robert Garioch, Doktor Faust in Rose

Street (1973) George Mackay Brown, The Wreck of the

Archangel (1989) Iain Crichton Smith, Ends and Beginnings

(1994)

INSPIRE and the SPI INSPIRE

• full indexing• subject thesaurus• flexible searching• canned searches

Scottish Poetry Index• poetry content of 20

Scottish literary magazines

• covers 1952 - present• available online, in

printed volumes and shortly on CD

What next? Digital archive of sound recordings Poetry Map of Scotland Best of Scottish Poetry New YSPL site I-pac “flavours”