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The Makar is the national poet of Scotland which was established in February 2004 by the Scottish Government and supported by Creative Scotland.The incumbent Makar serves a maximum term of three years which is non–renewable, and has overall responsibility for the promotion of literacy, poetry and writing across the country, as well as producing annual reports for both the Scottish Government ...
Growing up, Pennie competed in Robert Burns poetry recital competitions.. When she was furloughed from her work in a restaurant during the first COVID-19 lockdown in Scotland, she began posting a video with a Scots word each day on Twitter [6] to show the pronunciation and meaning of the word and how to use it in context.
Donna Ashworth is a Sunday Times best-selling Scottish poet. She came to prominence in 2020 when her poetry about the UK's COVID-19 lockdown was read in a viral video to raise money for the NHS. She has subsequently been credited with helping poetry sales reach record levels in the UK.
Published in 1969, his Six Glasgow Poems has been called 'epoch-making'. [1] The poems were first published as an insert in Glasgow University Magazine. [9]In 1984, he released Intimate Voices, a selection of his work from 1965 onwards including poems and essays on William Carlos Williams and "the nature of hierarchical diction in Britain."
StAnza is a poetry festival which takes place in March in the university town of St Andrews, Scotland. The Times newspaper referred to StAnza as “the country’s leading poetry festival” in 2024. [1] It has run every year since its inception in 1998, barring 2020 when it was interrupted by the Covid pandemic. [2]
Sheena Blackhall is a Scottish poet, novelist, short story writer, illustrator, traditional story teller and singer.Author of over 180 poetry pamphlets, 15 short story collections, 4 novels and 2 televised plays for children, The Nicht Bus and The Broken Hert.
Her collection Transparencies was published in 2013 and featured her first published work to have both Scottish Gaelic and English poems. [6] Her Scottish Gaelic poetry has appeared in several anthologies, including Other Tongues (1990) and Twenty of the Best (1990). She has also translated poems from Gaelic into English for An Anthology of ...
Since the 1970s, Walter Perrie has been a poet, editor, travel writer and contributor to numerous magazines and periodicals. Perrie was a founding co-editor in 1969 of the literary magazine Chapman (Chapman Publishing, Edinburgh), editing the magazine until 1975.