I'm not suggesting we cancel a dead man or turn off the famed NYE anthem, but let's brought this to mind, shall we?

You know the drill. As the New Year’s Eve countdown draws to a close, the ball drops, and, if we’re lucky, we finish our midnight kiss. Next up: someone inevitably queues up the familiar tune of “Auld ...

A Scots language poem has won the international Wigtown Poetry Prize for the first time. Shiftin, by Mhairi Owens, saw off entries from the USA, China, Canada and Ecuador for the £1,500 award. This ...

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“For a long time,” writes Kathleen Jamie in her afterword to The Keelie Hawk (Picador £12.99), “I’ve wanted to write a suite of poems entirely in Scots.” If your first thought is “But I don’t speak ...

A 500-year-old handwritten fragment of a poem by one of Scotland’s greatest literary figures has been discovered. The scribbled lines of a work by Sir David Lyndsay, an influential pre-Reformation ...

Rosalind Smith receives funding from the Australian Research Council as the lead investigator on a Discovery Project (2010-12) on the Material Cultures of Early Modern Women's Writing. Think Mary, ...

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A savvy Scots blogger was sent over £200 of freebies from his favourite brands - after he wrote them poems. Andrew Cunningham, 29, spotted a tip online which suggested supermarkets send free gifts if ...

Shiftin, by Mhairi Owens, saw off entries from the USA, China, Canada and Ecuador for the £1,500 award. This year the prize was opened up to entries in Scots, English and Gaelic for the first time. Ms ...