On the eve of St Andrew’s Day, we are delighted to announce the opening of this year’s McCash Scots Language Poetry Prize ...

“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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

More than 150 people across the Borough engaged in music, poetry and storytelling events to mark Ulster-Scots Language Week ...

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For Gillian Rea, speaking Ulster Scots was a normal part of her childhood and she wants to see others enjoying the culture. A ...