A Scots language poem has won the international Wigtown Poetry Prize for the first time. Shiftin, by Mhairi Owens, saw off entries from the USA, China, Canada and Ecuador for the £1,500 award. This ...

On New Year’s Eve at the stroke of midnight people around the globe break into a tune whose lyrics are believed to be based on a Scottish poem by Robert Burns. ‘Auld Lang Syne,’ which translates ...

“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 ...

Written by Haddington resident and retired international development professional Philippa Ramsden, the poem, titled Unexpectedly, has been included in Scotland’s Stories: Friendship, a collection ...

You know the drill. As the New Year’s Eve countdown draws to a close, the ball drops, and, if we’re lucky, we finish our midnight kiss. Next up: someone inevitably queues up the familiar tune of “Auld ...

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A 500-year-old handwritten fragment of a poem by one of Scotland’s greatest literary figures has been discovered. The scribbled lines of a work by Sir David Lyndsay, an influential pre-Reformation ...

A savvy Scots blogger was sent over £200 of freebies from his favourite brands - after he wrote them poems. Andrew Cunningham, 29, spotted a tip online which suggested supermarkets send free gifts if ...