Scottish Poetry Library Podcast
1) From the Archive: My Life in Poetry with Candia McWilliam. December 2012
In November 2012, we staged the first in a new series of My Life in Poetry events at the Scottish Poetry Library. My Life in Poetry invites guests to reflect upon their lives through the lens of their...Show More
2) From the Archive: Fiona Sampson. August 2012
Fiona Sampson is an award-winning poet whose honours include the Cholmondeley Award and Newdigate Prize, as well as being shortlisted twice for both the T.S Eliot Prize and for the Forward Prize. She ...Show More
3) From the Archive: Glyn Maxwell. October 2013
In this podcast, recorded in August 2013 during the Edinburgh International Book Festival, Glyn Maxwell reads poems from his collection Pluto (Picador) and talks with Jennifer Williams about the breat...Show More
4) Samuel Tongue In Conversation with Taylor Dyson
Our resident podcast host, Samuel Tongue, speaks with the Dundee poet Taylor Dyson about her work and her appointment as the new Dundee and Angus Scots Scriever, based at the National Library of Scotl...Show More
5) From the Archive: Judy Brown. September 2012
Judy Brownâs first book, Loudness (Seren, 2011) was shortlisted for the 2011 Forward Felix Dennis prize for best first collection. Jennifer Williams met her in 2012 to discuss how she approaches poetr...Show More
6) From the Archive: Kay Ryan. August 2013
In this longer-than-usual podcast from 2013, Jennifer Williams talks to Kay Ryan, American poet, educator and 16th United States Poet Laureate. Kay was a 2011 MacArthur Fellow, won the Pulitzer Prize ...Show More
7) From the Archive: Ken Babstock. May 2013
Jennifer Williams talks with Griffin Award Winning Canadian poet Ken Babstock about âthe thingyness of thingsâ, Paul Muldoon, the weather, Canadian garrison mentalityâs effect on the work of Canadian ...Show More
8) From the Archive: Lynn Davidson & Alyson Hallett. January 2014
In this 2014 podcast Jennifer Williams talks to two Hawthornden Fellows: Lynn Davidson and Alyson Hallett about where they come from, loneliness versus aloneness, and their current and upcoming work. ...Show More
9) From the Archive: Marie Howe. October 2012
âI feel poets have saved my life. The poets are our companions. They have found words for states all of us have experienced.â So said Marie Howe on a 2012 visit to Scotland, where she was appearing as...Show More
10) From the Archive: Robert Wrigley. December 2013
In this podcast Jennifer Williams talks to Robert Wrigley about his collection and first book to be published in the UK, The Church of Omnivorous Light: Selected Poems (Bloodaxe). They also touch on n...Show More