A true Glasgow love story has inspired a powerful poem encouraging Scots to communicate on public transport. Lynne and John’s romance began on a First Bus, where they took the same route to work ...

John Betjeman and Ted Hughes. Around half the exhibition, which will be staged at the Queen’s Gallery at the palace, will showcase work created by the current poet laureate, Glasgow-born Carol ...

A young student’s multi-media poem exploring identity and masculinity in Scotland’s biggest city has been picked as the best of the month in the John Byrne ... poet from Glasgow, and the ...

AN HOUR’S drive from Glasgow, on the banks of Scotland’s ... which carries a quote from the poet John Keats, who spent a weary night at the roadside stop-off in 1818. In a letter to his ...

AN EVENING of poetry, pints and politics in honour of Robert Burns was held at Unity Books on Glasgow’s Southside on Saturday in support of the Morning Star. More than 60 people packed the bookshop to ...

"Burns was his first poet and that was a real risk for John Wilson, which is why he did it by subscribers." This meant that Burns had to get a list of guaranteed buyers before the book was even ...

Jackie Kay is Scotland's first black national poet ... John and Helen Kay. Her birth mother Scottish. Her father was then a Nigerian student studying in Scotland. I will say. She grew up in ...