Elaine C Smith on how little girl from rehearsals grew up to be Scotland’s Makar and what it’s like to be playing her mum
She didn’t realise it at the time, but Elaine C Smith started researching her latest role decades ago.
Poetry
There is still hope between my lines of love and loss: Poet on how writing helped after death of wife and unborn child
He had lost his wife and unborn daughter just two days before but, in deep shock and seriously ill himself, Craig Stobo began to write.
This isn’t a second bite at the cherry. The first one was just a nibble… Punk John Cooper Clarke on hitting poetic new heights at 70
His signature style hasn’t changed in decades, the skinniest suits and darkest shades remain in place, but John Cooper Clarke says he has noticed one big difference – his poetry is better than ever.
Spoken word house parties take Scotland by storm
A SCOTTISH spoken word promoter has taken the country by storm this week with its ‘spoken word house parties’ held at Drygate in Glasgow and Edinburgh’s Gilded Balloon.
‘Feisty, satirical and personal’ slam poetry is the latest version of one of Scotland’s centuries-old art forms
CONSIDERED by many as Scotland's chief art form, poetry has been an outlet for expression for centuries.
The lines of resistance: Writer Ben Okri reveals the poetry that has the power to change the world
IN a sword fight, a pen might not, despite all suggestions to the contrary, be mightier.
Edinburgh Fringe Review: The 900 Club is a captivating and emotional journey through grief and guilt
EMOTIONAL, raw, and very real, The 900 Club is a eulogy to a departed friend.
Great War poets in plaque tribute
WAR poets are to be remembered with a series of plaques.
Sir Ian McKellan to star in Radio 4 adaptation of Paradise Lost
My love is like an old tin bucket that’s newly sprung a leak: BBC poet takes inspiration from Oor Wullie
THE BBC’s people’s poet has revealed his inspiration and they don’t live far from Glebe Street.