'How we feel' was the theme for the 2025 StAnza international poetry festival, and the Lantern Live team were on stage, bringing all the feels!

Kathleen Jamie and Ally Heather were joined by award-winning performance poet Charlotte Van den Broeck, and Nuala Watt, whose first collection - The Department of Work and Pensions Assesses a Jade Fish - is a must-read for the austerity age.

To access poetry for free in person, via post, or online, please find details at the Scottish Poetry Library website here.

The Lantern Scottish Poetry podcast is produced by Bespoken Media, and is supported by the National Lottery through Creative Scotland.

'Memory is unreliable, and a creative practise in itself'...

Memory and nostalgia are powerful, evocative experiences that have inspired some of the greatest literary works.

Joining Scotland's Makar, Kathleen Jamie, and host Ally Heather for this episode, and sharing their own poems inspired by memory, are poets Iona Lee and Kevin P Gilday.

To access poetry for free in person, via post, or online, please find details at the Scottish Poetry Library website here.

The Lantern Scottish Poetry podcast is produced by Bespoken Media, and is supported by the National Lottery through Creative Scotland.

How important is a sense of place when it comes to poetry?

Two very different parts of Scotland are represented on this episode of Lantern.

Shane Strachan from Aberdeenshire and Hugh McMillan from Dumfries and Galloway join host Ally Heather and Scotland's Makar, Kathleen Jamie in the Scottish Poetry Library.

To access poetry for free in person, via post, or online, please find details at the Scottish Poetry Library website here.

The Lantern Scottish Poetry podcast is produced by Bespoken Media, and is supported by the National Lottery through Creative Scotland.