Jane's Writing Shed.

The medium is the message – the power of public poetry http://gu.com/p/4hk3t?CMP=Share_AndroidApp_Blogger

This poem was written in response to a recent item on the BBC news website which described the death of a young dolphin in the USA as people flocked to take selfies with the poor creature... Taken It began as a dare, a stunt, a young dolphin trapped in a cowboy's net, its slipperiness handed round a harbour-side throng, its face pressed into theirs, to cries of go on, take one, but no-one in the instagram crowd noticed those dead prisoner's eyes or thought this is wrong and as its fight for life grew less and less each click a frame of death by the time the last person was offered a lifeless form they wondered what had happened and what they'd lost. Jane Aldous 2016

Jackie Kay announced as new Scots Makar - http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-scotland-35810962

Pretty, yet poisonous, favourite of poets http://gu.com/p/4h7tv?CMP=Share_AndroidApp_Blogger

Library displays rare Robert Burns Ae Fond Kiss letter - http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-scotland-35373097

Rachel McCarthy: the climate change scientist and poet unlocking elemental forces http://gu.com/p/4fjdt?CMP=Share_AndroidApp_Blogger

Liz Lochhead to receive Queen's Gold Medal for Poetry - http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/entertainment-arts-35153588