The Scottish Poetry Library (SPL), based in Edinburgh, is working on a pocket-sized collection of about 50 poems. It is being edited by teachers for teachers, and is primarily aimed at supporting their welfare. Launch is planned for spring 2018.
Lilias Fraser, projects manager at the library, said about 30 volunteers from primary and secondary schools gave initial responses to a longlist of poems.
She explained: “We made sure to include lots of teachers from outside the subject sphere of English because we wanted to open this right out. It’s about finding poems that speak to teachers directly, and in diverse cultural and linguistic ways.”
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