Happy National Poetry Day! This is Helena Bonham Carter reading 'I Worried' by Mary Oliver, with its wonderful message at the end...

📢 NATIONAL POETRY DAY ANNOUNCEMENT! The inaugural recipient of the 2024 Dymphna Bursary (for poets who identify as neurodivergent or who have a learning disability) is .... 🥁.... Rebecca Teulon-Rose! Big congrats to Rebecca and the £2,000 bursary to help develop her

On the bright side, we can plan our staff Christmas meal

🎭Culture funding is going up in Scotland, while it is being cut by Labour elsewhere in the UK. Scottish Gov financial plans will be confirmed after clarity from UK Gov budget, but commitment remains for increased culture support.

SPL ARCHIVE EXCLUSIVE Norman MacCaig introduces and reads Tourist and Landowner (previously unpublished) and Two Men At Once. (1990)

Imagine if the Parliaments of Westminster and Holyrood began each day with the reading of a poem?

Hats of to Chris Bryant for his advocacy of poetry 🎩 🧢

DERRICK HENRY!!!! 📺: Sunday 1 pm on CBS

Poems for October No. 6 Love, by George Herbert

Shona McCarthy has done a brilliant job for Edinburgh Festival Fringe Society - looking forward to seeing what her next challenge will be edfringe.com/learn/news-and…

The Eavan Boland Library will be the first building on Trinity’s campus to be named after a woman.❤️ irishtimes.com/ireland/educat…

Caribbean leaders demand slavery reparations summit voice-online.co.uk/news/world-new… By: Sinai Fleary 🇬🇩🇻🇨 The Voice Newspaper

Congratulations to Leyla Josephine on winning the Jerwood Foundation award for Best Single Poem (Spoken Word) at the Forward Prizes in Durham 🎭 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿

Congratulations to Marjorie Lotfi on winning the Felix Dennis award for Best First Collection at the Forward Prizes in Durham 🎭 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿

Scotland’s poets winning prestigious awards reflects well not only on their individual talent and perseverance but also on the investment and support provided by funders, their peers, publishers and literary event promoters - well done to Leyla Josephine & Marjorie Lotfi on

"The committee’s view is that there is a need for a substantially improved relationship between Creative Scotland and the Scottish Government. We therefore welcome the proposed review of Creative Scotland and recommend that this should be established as an independent review."

🎉🥳 Fantastic news on new investment for the preservation & development of Robert Burns Ellisland Museum and Farm

One of the best and ⁦Hibernian Football Club⁩ through and through. Great player in that brilliant Hibs team of my boyhood. Rest in power Peter and thanks for the memories.