Poets from across the world are preparing themselves for Scotland’s annual international poetry festival, StAnza.
The festival begins with a launch night in St Andrews’ Byre Theatre on Wednesday.
More than 90 poets, plus writers, artists, film-makers and performers, will be entertaining at 80 events over five days among them Ciaran Carson, Selima Hill, Paul Farley, Julia Donaldson, Philip Gross, Marilyn Hacker, Bob Holman and Douglas Dunn.
International names on the bill include Chinese poet Yang Lian, Germany’s Durs Grunbein and poets from the US, Italy, Belgium, Georgia, Iraq and Australia.
The launch night will see a concert of poetry-inspired music with the Scottish Chamber Orchestra and mezzo soprano Karen Cargill.
The SCO and the Music Centre at St Andrews are also involved in a concert on Sunday, March 20, that will premiere three new musical settings to poems by the Gaelic poet Sorley MacLean, to celebrate his centenary year.
