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The Prows o’ Reekie - by Lewis Spence

{ Poem }

O wad this braw hie-heapit toun Sail aff like an enchanted ship, Drift owre the warld’s seas up and doun, And kiss wi’ Venice lip to lip, Or anchor into Naples’ Bay A misty island far astray Or set her rock to Athens’ wa’, Pillar to pillar, stane to stane, The cruikit spell o’ her […]

Stevenson’s Edinburgh - by Andrew Neilson

{ Poem }

Robert Louis Stevenson,
/ the author in his jimjams,
/ wrote about the New Town,
/ its draughty parallelograms…

Six O’Clock in Princes Street - by Wilfred Owen

{ Poem }

In twos and threes, they have not far to roam, / Crowds that thread eastward, gay of eyes…

That’s Life - by Alan Bold

{ Poem }

Far from the scent of the crocus
/ And the pavanne of Scottish daffodils
/ A loud crash was heard in Princes Street.
/ Safe from…

Threshold - by Jackie Kay

{ Poem }

Our strength is our difference. / Dinny fear it. Dinny caw canny. …

Embro: Southside Ditties - by Gordon Jarvie

{ Poem }

Tune: Ti, ti, ti, ta (wi’ apologies tae Beethoven’s Fifth Symphony)
/
/ I
/
/ Duddingston Loch
/ Skate ower…

Curtain - by Gordon Jarvie

{ Poem }

Remembering an Edinburgh neighbour
/
/
/ Descending her garden path
/ she turns, backtracks indoors
/ again, and into the front room
/ to straighten a…

Autumn - by Kathleen Jamie

{ Poem }

O whence the leaves
scuttering down Easter Road,
sycamore and rowan
desperate as refugees

A Month on the Mile - by Christine De Luca

{ Poem }

On day 1, explore Edinburgh Castle sitting proud: / find the modest crown of a far from quiet country, /…

To Edinburgh - by Valerie Gillies

{ Poem }

Stone above storms, you rear upon the ridge:
/ we live on your back, its crag-and-tail,
/
/ spires and tenements stacked on your spine,
/ the…

Embro to the Ploy - by Robert Garioch

{ Poem }

The auld Assembly-rooms, whaur Scott
foregethert wi his fiers,
nou see a gey kenspeckle lot
ablow the chandeliers.

From the Royal College of Surgeons of Edinburgh - by Andrew Greig

{ Poem }

My only talent lay in these.
/ My father rubbed his hands together,
/ stared as though their whorls held codes
/ of thirty years obstetric…

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