This year’s McCash Scots language poetry competition, organised by the department of Scottish Literature at Glasgow University and by The ...

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A notable prize fund has been announced for the 2026 Frances Browne Multilingual Poetry Competition.The competition, held as ...

“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 ...

The work of Robert Burns continues to have a deep connection to Ulster-Scots: the province was the first place outside of Scotland to publish his work and his poetry had meaning and depth for ...