Anon 6 launches 9th July, Scottish Poetry Library
Anon 6 launches at the Scottish Poetry Library, Crichton's Close, 7pm, 9th July. Be seeing you.
Andrew Martin, Modern Scottish Collections Curator on Scots language
Andrew Martin, one of the Library's Curators of modern Scottish collections, showcases a series of items which show the vibrancy of Scots language today.
Acclaimed Scottish Poet Don Paterson reads at Emory University
This event is the 20th reading in the Raymond Danowski Poetry Library Reading Series. Paterson is the author of several award-winning poetry collections, including the recent Rain (winner of the Forward Prize), Orpheus, and Landing Light. Ask any reader of British poetry to identify who is doing the best work right now, and you should get short odds on the answer being Don Paterson, writes the Boston Review. The New Yorker calls him a poet of surface gorgeousness (he rhymes, he writes in chiming little stanzas), who is nevertheless right at home in the dark. A fellow of the Royal Society of Literature, Paterson has been the recipient of the Whitbread Poetry Prize, the Queen's Gold Medal for Poetry and the Geoffrey Faber Memorial Award. He has been awarded both the T.S. Eliot Prize and the Forward Poetry Prize on two occasions. Paterson was also appointed Officer of the Order of the British Empire (OBE) in 2008. In addition to being a talented poet, Paterson is also a musician, an active composer and a professor of poetry at the University of St. Andrews, Emory's sister university.
Scottish Poetry Slam Championships 2015 Edinburgh 9 David Lee Morgan
Scottish Poetry Slam Championships 2015 Edinburgh 9 David Lee Morgan
Scottish, Poetry, Slam, Championships, 2015, Edinburgh, 1, Poets, stage, performance, competition, David Lee Morgan
Scottish Poetry Slam Championships 2015 Edinburgh 5 Matthew MacDonald
Scottish Poetry Slam Championships 2015 Edinburgh 5 Matthew MacDonald
Scottish, Poetry, Slam, Championships, 2015, Edinburgh, 1, Poets, stage, performance, competition, Matthew MacDonald
Scottish Poetry Slam Championships 2015 Edinburgh 11 Sara Hirsch, S+T
Scottish Poetry Slam Championships 2015 Edinburgh 11 Sara Hirsch, S+T
Scottish, Poetry, Slam, Championships, 2015, Edinburgh, 1, Poets, stage, performance, competition, Sara Hirsch, S+T
Scottish Poetry Slam Championships 2015 Edinburgh 2 Jess Smith, wildcard
Scottish Poetry Slam Championships 2015 Edinburgh 2 Jess Smith, wildcard
Scottish, Poetry, Slam, Championships, 2015, Edinburgh, 1, Poets, stage, performance, competition, Jess Smith, wildcard
Jackie Kay at Edinburgh Central Library (2 of 3)
Jackie Kay performing at Edinburgh Central Library during the city's Carry a Poem reading campaign. The event was part of Edinburgh City Libraries' City Reads series.
Hamish Henderson: On the Radical Road
Evocative, innovative shape-shifting drama sculpted from the poetry, music and songs of Hamish Henderson (1919-2002).
Celebrating the 100th anniversary of the birth of this revolutionary European artist and father of Scottish folk revival, presented in dynamic, dramatic fusion. Exhilarating ensemble theatre enacting and embracing Henderson’s vision of a people’s culture: a new democratic art for here and now.
‘One of the most thrilling evenings in the theatre I’ve had for years… If I could give it six stars, I would!’ (TheWeeReview.com).
‘Beautifully animated… with songs, wicked fun, a great zest for life’ (BritishTheatreGuide.info).
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Hamish Henderson (March 1951) Alan Lomax Recordings, Scottish Tunes
A Scottish poet, lyricist, songwriter, and collector, Hamish Henderson provides jaunty Scottish folk tunes and marches, some of them with lyrics of his own, and provides commentaries. Since he served in WWII, he also sings military tunes like King Farouk. He was a pivotal figure in the Scottish folk revival.
DISCLAIMER: I do not own anything in the video. The credit goes to the artist.
Jackie Kay - Scotland's new Makar
Jackie Kay is Scotland’s new Makar, First Minister Nicola Sturgeon has announced.
Ms Kay, who was awarded an MBE for her services to literature in 2006, will succeed Liz Lochhead as the National Poet.
The role will see Ms Kay create new work and promote poetry throughout the country, particularly encouraging young people to engage with the art form.
She was selected from a strong shortlist prepared by a panel of literary experts, convened by Dr Robyn Marsack, the Director of the Scottish Poetry Library. The final selection was made by First Minister Nicola Sturgeon and former first ministers Alex Salmond, Lord McConnell of Glenscorrodale and Henry McLeish.
The First Minister made the announcement at the Scottish Poetry Library in Edinburgh where Ms Kay read one of her own poems, ‘Between the Dee and the Don’.
The National Library of Scotland celebrates Robert Louis Stevenson Day
Writers Andrew O'Hagan and James Robertson join National Librarian, Dr John Scally and other staff from the National Library of Scotland and the Advocates Library to give their thoughts on Robert Louis Stevenson. #RLSDay
Glasgow University to pay £20m in slave trade reparations UWI & Scotlands Black National Poet Commen
Glasgow University is to pay £20m in reparations to atone for its historical links to the transatlantic slave trade in what the University of West Indies has described as a “bold, historic” move.
It signed an agreement with the University of the West Indies to fund a joint centre for development research, at a ceremony in Glasgow on Friday morning.
Glasgow University discovered last year it had benefited financially from Scottish slave traders in the 18th and 19th centuries by between £16.7m and £198m in today’s money.
In what is thought to be the first attempt by a British university to set up a programme of restorative justice, it has pledged to raise £20m for the centre, chiefly in research grants and gifts.
Universities must follow Glasgow and own up to their role in the slave trade
Afua Hirsch
Afua Hirsch
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Other British universities, including Oxford and Bristol, have been the focus of protests over their ties to the slave trade and to powerful colonialists, such as Cecil Rhodes.
In 2017, All Souls College at Oxford launched an annual scholarship for Caribbean students and paid a £100,000 grant to a college in Barbados, in recognition of its funding from Christopher Codrington, a wealthy slave owner who bequeathed £10,000 in 1710 to build a library that bears his name.
The Glasgow agreement was first signed in Kingston, Jamaica, on 31 July. Prof Sir Hilary Beckles, the vice-chancellor of the University of the West Indies, said it was a “bold, moral, historic step”.
Poetry Like Buses a short film about the Scottish poet Rab Wilson
Poetry Like Buses short film by Roxana Vilk about the Scottish poet Rab Wilson.
Commissioned for Commonwealth Games 2014. by Scottish Poetry Library, British Council and Creative Scotland
and executive produced by Scottish Poetry Library & United Creations Collective.
filmed on location in Dumfries and Galloway
Produced and directed by Roxana Vilk
Camera Ian Dodds
Editor Ling Lee
Sound Design and Music Peter Vilk
Book Week Scotland 2012
Whether you were there in person or just wish you had been, here's your chance to relive or catch up on some of the best parts of Book Week Scotland.
Discover some beautiful sculptures, join the Reading Hour and a Gaelic Bookbug session and learn more about what the week and its events were all about.
Edinburgh students read excerpts from the James Tait Black shortlisted books (biography)
The James Tait Black Prizes are the only major awards of their kind in Britain to be judged by scholars and students.
Each year senior staff and around 20 postgraduate students in English Literature at the University of Edinburgh are involved in the judging process.
In this video Edinburgh students read excepts from the books shortlisted for the 2019 biography prize.
The shortlist:
* Natives: Race and Class in the Ruins of Empire by Akala (Two Roads)
* In Extremis: The Life of War Correspondent Marie Colvin by Lindsey Hilsum (Chatto & Windus)
* The Catalogue of Shipwrecked Books: Young Columbus and the Quest for a Universal Library by Edward Wilson-Lee (William Collins)
* The Life of Stuff: A Memoir about the Mess We Leave Behind by Susannah Walker (Doubleday)
At the awards ceremony on 17 August 2019, In Extremis: The Life of War Correspondent Marie Colvin by Lindsey Hilsum (Chatto & Windus) was crowned the winner.
Read more:
Old Tongue by Jackie Kay
Read by the author. This poem and many others by Jackie Kay and other poets can be viewed on the Poetry Channel, a UK pilot website created by the English and Media Centre and funded by the Arts Council of England
Jackie Kay is published by Bloodaxe Books
Special - The Queen In Scotland (1956)
Scotland.
Kilmarnock:
GV. The Queen Elizabeth II walking through ranks of cheering people with the Lord Provost of Kilmarnock, Mr W. B. Gilmour. GV. Massed crowd. LV. Robert Burns' Cottage in Alloway. LV. Queen and Duke of Edinburgh walking towards poet's birthplace. CV. Sign on Burns' Cottage: Robert Burns The Arshire Poet. was born in this Cottage on the 25th January, A.D. 1759. died 21th July A.D. 1796 aged 371/2 years. LV. The Queen walking out of cottage door.
Edinburgh:
LV. Top view, the City of Edinburgh (library). GV. The Queen standing outside the Royal train at Princes Street Station receiving the keys of the City of Edinburgh from the Lord Provost of Edinburgh Sir John G. Banks, and then a general shaking of hands. GV. The Guard of Honour - Royal Scots Greys. GV. Lord Mayor and other dignitaries walking in line along station platform. LV. Archers lining up for the presentation of the Edinburgh Arrow in the Meadows. SV. The Queen with Chief Bowman. GV. The two prize winners Major J. G. S. Gammell and Major A. C. Blair march towards the Queen. GV. The Queen receives the arrow and hands it over to Major Gammell. GV. Massed crowd. GV. The Queen hands the Queen's Prize to Major A. C. Blair. TV. The Scots Greys lined up on the parade field in the Palace gardens. TV. Queen on saluting base surrounded by officials, behind her stands Prince Philip wearing kilt. SV. Old guidon (mounted) is carried away from the ranks escorted on either side by horsemen. LV. The horsemen wheel and walk away across the field leaving the parade. TV. The troops at attention. GV. The Queen presents the new guidon to the Standard Bearer. TV. Soldiers on parade. SV. The Queen on saluting base. LV. The march past with the mountains rising behind the parade ground.
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A Resting Place a short film about New Zealand poet Glenn Colquhoun by Roxana Vilk
A Resting Place a short film by Roxana Vilk about about New Zealand poet Glenn Colquhoun filmed in Shetland.
Commissioned for Commonwealth Games 2014. by Scottish Poetry Library, British Council and Creative Scotland
and executive produced by Scottish Poetry Library & United Creations Collective.
filmed on location in Shetland
Produced and directed by Roxana Vilk
Camera Ian Dodds
Editor Ling Lee
Sound Design and Music Peter Vilk
Last Witch Of Scotland ( Janet Horne )
Short Movie about Janet Horne. (died 1727) was a woman from Scotland accused of witchcraft , and the last person to be executed legally for witchcraft in the British Isles. Horne and her daughter were arrested in Dornoch in Sutherland and imprisoned on the accusations of her neighbours.
Music by myself Billy Moffat.
& Movie by Sara Lynn.
Contact Details at the end of the film.
Thank you
Billy.