James Milligan: Carlisle Cotton Spinner Poet
While our archival research is still on hold due to Covid-19 lockdown restrictions, the ‘Piston, Pen and Press’ team has…
Jessie Conqueror: Tracking a Working-Class Woman Poet
Writing up entries for the ‘Piston, Pen & Press’ database continually produces new findings. Even without access to our usual…
Monday Mornings
Five-thirty a.m., an a middlin crowd mornin. Hooooooo-eeeeeee. Ohhoooeeeeeee. Dunno be alarmed, I’m nobbut tryin to imitate a mornin buzzer wi cowd type. Ooh———-, EEeeeeeeeeeooooooooo. Han yo getten me? Bang bang bang bang bang…Continue Reading →
Poems on Places – Cathedral Primary, Motherwell
During the lockdown, we’re missing the chance to get out and do more poetry workshops with Scottish primary schools, which…
‘Piston, Pen and Press’: Spring Update
Archival research is at the heart of the ‘Piston, Pen and Press’ project. Since we began our work almost two-and-a-half…
Piston, Pen & Press in North Lanarkshire primary schools
Place-based learning, industrial heritage and Scots language Over the past few weeks, we have been taking our project into the primary schools of North Lanarkshire. From Abronhill and Stepps, to…Continue Reading →
A Daurk Maiter
Guest post in Scots and English by Martin Travers, playwright Wirkin oan ma new play A Daurk Maiter haes buin…
Piston, Pen and Press: Autumnal Update
Whether technically autumn or not (it certainly feels like it outside) it has been a busy few weeks here at…
Mutual Improvement in the Borders
These past two weeks conducting research in the libraries and archives in the Borders have been really exciting. In addition to finding materials on little-known millworker poets like John Singer…Continue Reading →