Developments at the Scottish Poetry Library

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Developments at the Scottish Poetry Library
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Have you heard?developments at the Scottish
Poetry Library

• 1984 - SPL Founded. Moves into premises at
  Tweeddale Court
• March 1999 - Move to purpose built premises at
  Crichtons Close
• April 2003 - SPLs 10th outreach collection
  launched in Shetland
• SPL employs National Poetry Audience Development
  Officer
• June 2003 SPL employs Marketing Officer
• Autumn 2003 to Spring 2004 - Expansion of office
  space at Crichtons Close
• Thursday 20 May 2004 - Poetry arrived in search
  of me Neruda Centenary Celebration and Friday
  28 May 2004 - 'Love and a Life' with Liz Lochhead
  both events sell out
• Sunday 22 August 2004 - Love and Marriage
  launch of Handfast at the Edinburgh International
  Book Festival.

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Have you seen?www.spl.org.uk

• Contacts
• Collections
• Friends of the SPL
• Borrowing
• Audio and Braille Holdings
• Popular Poems
• Bookshop
• Poets Voices
• Events
• Poets A-Z
• Lost for Words
• EPIC (European Poetry information centre)
• Poets Pub
• INSPIRE and the SPI

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Lost for Words?

• Can you help us find these quotations?
• When did the Martians come to Glasgow? If you
  know - or even just know a poem about the event -
  please tell us!
• Recited by a Scottish lady missionary in
  Bangladesh - a humorous poem about a woman who
  washed her underwear on a Sunday, watched with
  horror by the other villagers
• In the 19th century there was a poor character in
  Glasgow who suffered from an abnormal appetite.
  Known as Rab Ha', the Glasgow Glutton, he must
  have had a popular poem written about him, which
  we are trying to find. Our enquirer is now in his
  70s, and remembers saying the lines as a child in
  Clydebank.
• We are looking for a poem in Scots called 'The
  Apothecary' we have tried Charles Murray, David
  Rorie, W.D. Cocker etc. with no luck - any other
  ideas?

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EPICbrowse European poetry resources

• Poets A-Z
• Translating Poets Events
• Poet(es) Passages
• A New Alliance
• Home and Away
• Northern Light
• Nordic-Celtic Connections
• Voyages and Versions
• Featured Translation
• canned searches
• international links
• organisations, poets and translation sections

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Poets Pub

• The featured poets and writings are
• Hugh MacDiarmid, Sangschaw (1925)
• Sorley MacLean, 17 Poems for 6d in Gaelic, Scots
  and English (1940) (with Robert Garioch)
• Sydney Goodsir Smith, Under the Eildon Tree
  (1948)
• Norman MacCaig, The Sinai Sort (1957)
• Edwin Morgan, The Second Life (1968)
• Robert Garioch, Doktor Faust in Rose Street
  (1973)
• George Mackay Brown, The Wreck of the Archangel
  (1989)
• Iain Crichton Smith, Ends and Beginnings (1994)

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INSPIRE and the SPI

• INSPIRE
• full indexing
• subject thesaurus
• flexible searching
• canned searches
• Scottish Poetry Index
• poetry content of 20 Scottish literary magazines
• covers 1952 - present
• available online, in printed volumes and shortly
  on CD

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What next?

• Digital archive of sound recordings
• Poetry Map of Scotland
• Best of Scottish Poetry
• New YSPL site
• I-pac flavours