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Carry a poem all around town

By fay.young on February 9, 2010

Spot the poetry in St Andrew Square?
Sadly, we missed the event in Leith last week when performance poet Mark Thompson carried poetry to the Library, for an evening about life and learning with adult learners and tutors from CLAN Edinburgh. But there’s still two weeks to go in the Carry a Poem campaign with free [...]

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Home thoughts: poetry for Refugee Week

Home thoughts: poetry for Refugee Week

By fay.young on June 17, 2009

The ‘poetry tree’ in St Andrew Square Garden
Home is a dead tree in the garden.  Well, not quite so dead now that it is fluttering with poems about home to mark Refugee Week in Edinburgh.

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The poetry and prose of caring: a tribute to women

The poetry and prose of caring: a tribute to women

By fay.young on March 12, 2009

They let life go and they get life going,
they live to give love and they love to let live.

Finding the right words is not always easy.   For many women caring is such a natural part of daily life they do not stop to put what they are doing into words.  We went to the Scottish [...]

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