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T-shirts, pads, and reports

We've been busy preparing for our first anniversary... acquiring T-shirts, notepads, posters, and finalising our annual report. When you...

We haven't been sleeping...

All through January, February, March, and now April, we have not been sleeping. Rather we have been • launching the TINY PRIZE, which has...

It's a whole new year...

2023 begins now... Okay, it's just a social construct ( ha ha ha), but it's a useful marker and a potential herald for new things. Here...

Adam Burnel on where things come from...

Looking for inspiration I went on line to explore where this word BLOG came from. Of course I discovered a load of information I had not...

Michael Mullen, on wielding a free lance...

Free lance. The first recorded use of the word freelance (spelt as two words, free lance) is in Sir Walter Scott’s novel Ivanhoe. It’s...

Sarah Luczaj using the I-CHING...

The I Ching, or Book of Changes, is an ancient Chinese oracle, used for divination. It's a kind of compilation/ecosystem of Taoist wisdom...

Out of 'nowhere'...

Today we welcome Ross Wilcock to City of Poets website, the first poet to register with us from 'out of nowhere'. By that we mean Ross is...

Nicola Kirk's backstory for her heron...

When I was working next to Glasgow Green a colleague told me they had seen a heron caught in the branches of a tree down by the river...

Sunny Govan Radio

An interview on Simone Murray's Community Art broadcast at Sunny Govan Radio, Thursday September 8, coincided with later announcements...

3 weeks is a long time in poetry...

It's hard to believe that City of Poets website went live less than three weeks ago, or that City of Poets only launched at the end of...

Making Pies Workshop Progress

We're midway through the second Making Pies set of 6 free workshops that take place at The Wee Retreat each Tuesday evening. It's hard to...

Beginnings

City of Poets began sort of with a Robert Frost-style lump in the throat. Despite having been published and scribbling for years, being a...

Whiteboard collaborative poetry!

Thanks to so many people who came to the launch of City of Poets on May 22, 2022. As the final event of the Southside Wellbeing Festival,...