Today we celebrate Gies a Scots Poem Day 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿

We will be sharing films of Scots language poetry across our social media platforms - and we encourage you to share your recordings too!

Here is the fabulous Len Pennie on the virtue of taking a daunder.

#GiesaScotsPoemDay

2026 marks the centenary of Hugh MacDiarmid’s “A Drunk Man Looks at the Thistle”. For #GiesAScotsPoemDay @brambrella.bsky.social invited some of the standard-bearers of present-day Scots poetry to compose new work responding to MacDiarmid & his legacy
www.scottishpoetrylibrary.org.uk/gies-a-scots...

I think this page went live on the @byleaveswelive.bsky.social’s website on Monday?

A bunch o meh fellow makars aa speakin back tae or awa fae Grecht Shug o the MacDs, as curated by the skeely @brambrella.bsky.social

www.scottishpoetrylibrary.org.uk/gies-a-scots...

#GiesAScotsPoemDay

I mind when I was a bairnie hou ma mither
brocht out ae day a kist o skinklan things,
ferlies I thocht them, ilk mair rare nor anither,
aa kind o gowdies, stanes and chains and rings…

—Douglas Young, “Thesaurus Paleo-Scoticus”
10 June is #GiesAScotsPoemDay
#poem #poetry
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Saein as it's #GiesaScotsPoemDay an the morn's #FernandoPessoa 's birthday, here's a wee bit frae #ColinBramwell 's byous versions...

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The Scottish Poetry Library has been a proud partner in this year's Gies A Scots Poem Day, commissioning new poems in Scots to mark the centenary of Hugh MacDiarmid's A Drunk Man Looks at the Thistle.

projects.handsupfortrad.scot/handsupfortr...

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For #GiesaScotsPoemDay A'll gie ye yin o ma ain that's actually been furthsettit in an actual buik! It's cried Foostie Oysters an it's a repone tae Robert Fergusson's Caller Oysters. It's in "O'er A' My Labours Sey Your Skill" editit by @rhonabrown.bsky.social & @wilcocksonamy.bsky.social