To coincide with Dr. Emma Macleod’s lecture Republican Reality: Scotland and the USA 1790-1820, the fifth in the Centre for Scottish and Celtic Studies Vox Populi seminar series, we offer up a tale of two WiIsons. Both were born in… Read More ›
Tag Archive for ‘poetry’
The EMU annual magazine: featuring Lochhead, Kelman and Torrington
The University of Glasgow has a long history of offering part-time courses for adults. The Centre for Open Studies was formerly known as the Department of Adult and Continuing Education and during the early 1970s four issues of an annual… Read More ›
Edwin Morgan: Culture, hacked…
It was great to attend Culture Hack Scotland last weekend, meet some of the artists, designers and technologists who were there and see what they put together in less than 24 hours. Myself and fellow data provider Julie Johnstone (Scottish Poetry Library)… Read More ›
Edwin Morgan: Culture Hack!
Special Collections are intrigued and excited to be part of Culture Hack 2012, a 24-hour event that ’…challenges designers, technologists and artists to make innovative new culture-related projects…’ The event theme is Data, Sound + Vision and we are contributing scrapbook images and listings of poems from the papers… Read More ›
New books in the Library – week beg. 7th November 2011
Below is a selection of books recently received by the Library. This selection is part of a larger collection of recently received books currently on display on Level 3 of the Main Library. Books are available on this display for… Read More ›
A poet’s scrapbooks – Edwin Morgan’s 90th birthday
Edwin Morgan, the distinguished Scottish poet, celebrates his 90th birthday on 27th of April 2010. To mark the occasion, Special Collections are exhibiting material from his significant and extensive archive, which includes scrapbooks, correspondence and handwritten drafts of poems, given to the department over… Read More ›
A Knight’s Tale
Special Collections holds significant early examples of works by the great English poet, Geoffrey Chaucer (c 1340-1400). These include fifteenth century manuscript and illustrated printed copies of The Canterbury Tales and the only extant manuscript copy of The Romaunt of… Read More ›
The Blakes are back…
…after a brief ‘holiday’ in France. We recently lent a number of works by the engraver, artist and poet, William Blake (1757-1827) to an exhibition at the Petit Palais, Museum of Fine Arts, in Paris. These included the illuminated book… Read More ›
