I loved reading my poem at the launch of this excellent project, and it’s not just for Scottish poets. Do send some if you have them.
Colin Will as host: photograph by Helena Fornells Nadad We all know poems about Scotland but can the shape and nature of Scotland be drawn entirely in poetry? StAnza has set itself the challenge to see if this is the case. This year at StAnza 2014 we launched our project for the Year of Homecoming Scotland to map Scotland in Poetry. It began with a great fanfare, and unveiled at the event was our specially designed extremely non-digital map to serve our purpose.
Colin with the map, Lindsay Macgregor with the poem: photo by Helena Fornells Nadal The launch was an open event so before the festival we invited people to contact us proposing poems which had a specific Scottish location. We had a fine response from a wide range of people offering to read either one of their own poems, or a poem by a friend, or occasionally an…
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