National Poetry Day 2008 - 100 Favourite Scottish Love Poems

Blackwell's Bookshop
South Bridge, Edinburgh
6.30pm
Free but ticketed

Blackwell Bookshop takes great pleasure in welcoming a mixture of poets to read their work from 100 Favourite Scottish Love Poems and the Editor Stewart Conn to discuss the collection of work as a whole.

This work features a vibrant selection of the best Scottish love poems, with each poet limited to one poem. Through these poems many different kinds of love are explored whether it is sexual, passionate, romantic, or parental. Traditional Scottish verse mixes with great literature as "Bonny Barbara Allan" and "Jock o' Hazeldean" rub shoulders with Byron and Hogg.

Modern Scottish writing, from some of the most inspiring poets of our time, MacCaig, MacDiarmid, Morgan and Carol Ann Duffy contrasts with Gaelic poetry by Sorley MacLean, Derick Thomson and Meg Bateman. Poems of first love, yearning for love, love in absence and eternal love are not grouped thematically, as in so many other anthologies, but seamlessly so that contrasting poems can strike sparks off one another, across the page - often with wit and jollity - to demonstrate that we experience love in individual and inspiring ways.

Tickets are available from the front desk at Blackwell's.