Organisations

Scottish Poetry Library

Scottish Publishers Association

Scottish Book Trust

Scottish Arts Council

The Association for Scottish Literary Studies

National Library of Scotland

Scots Language Society

SLAINTE – Scottish Libraries across the Internet

Scots Online

HI-Arts – Promoting the arts in the highlands and islands of Scotland

The Edinburgh International Book Festival

Poetry Association of Scotland

StAnza – Scotland's poetry festival at St Andrews

Poems & Pints – Performance Poetry in Glasgow and Southwest Scotland

Big Word Performance Poetry in Edinburgh

The Diggers Writers poetry & prose group meeting at Edinburgh's famous Athletic Arms

Tyne & Esk Writers Midlothian & East Lothian Writers' Groups

Word Power – Scotland's independent radical bookshop

Scottish Music Centre

Sabhal Mor Ostaig – The Gaelic further education college

The Poetry Kit – UK and worldwide poetry events listing and more

The Poetry Library at London's Southbank Centre

The Poetry Society

The British Library Poetry Pages

BOSLIT – Bibliography of Scottish Literature in Translation

Cyfwe – Welsh literature in translation (parallel project to BOSLIT)

British Council Literature Department


Literary Magazines & Poetry Publishers

Arrowhead Press - Durham-based publisher of books and pamphlets of contemporary poetry
Bloodaxe Books – The best contemporary poetry from the UK's sharpest publisher

Carcanet Press

Chapman Literary Magazine

Edinburgh Review

Enitharmon

Kettillonia

Koo Press Poetry - poetry chapbooks from the North East of Scotland and beyond

Luath Press Ltd - Independent Scottish Publishers

Mariscat Press

Markings

Rampant Scotland Links to Scottish Literature Sites

Scottish Pamphlet Poetry

Texthouse – New writing from the Scottish Borders

Salt (based in Cambridge) has a useful authors' guide

Scottish Cultural Press

Shearsman Press (publisher of Gael Turnbull among others)

zafusy - online experimental poetry journal


Internet resources

Poetry Daily – US poetry site and weekly e-mail newsletter

poetry.com – another US poetry site

Internet Poetry Archive

Poets' Corner – International, multilingual poetry archive

The Writers' Zone – dedicated to help writing people from all over the world publish their work online

Apples & Snakes – London-based performance platform

Penned in the Margins – spoken-word activism, also based in London

Footsteps to Oxford – Where Writers and Artists are Discovered

Lavendar Mist – Home of the written word

Loads of odes – Real life poetry

Trobar.org – hoard of medieval Occitan (troubador) poetry

J.W.Goethe - Poetry speaks for itself

Poetics at Buffalo (e-mail discussion group)

NewPoetry – Contemporary Poetry News & Views (e-mail discussion group)

BritishPoets (e-mail discussion group)

PoetryEtc provides a venue for a dialogue relating to poetry and poetics (e-mail discussion group)


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