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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 ...
JOHN McGarrigle, who is understood to be among the eight killed in Friday night’s Clutha bar helicopter crash, was a beloved Glasgow poet whose words defined the city he lived his life in.
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 ...
"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 ...
Most people remember the symbols depicting his relationship with Glasgow by the following short poem: There’s the tree ... Following this legend, in 1450, John Stewart, known as the first ...
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 ...