Edinburgh: online book launch

“An excellent tour for both the historian and the poetry lover: Ken is a brilliant guide and his love for the poems shines out and illuminates them for us.”These walking tours weave in and out of streets, closes, gardens and graveyards. You’ll hear works by Robert Burns, Dorothy Wordsworth, Victor Hugo, Robert Louis Stevenson, the great Anon and many others.

Ken Cockburn

The online launch of Edinburgh: poems & translations by Ken Cockburn, a new booklet published by The Caseroom Press.

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Ken Cockburn has lived in Edinburgh for thirty years, and led poetry walks in the Old Town for thirteen. This pamphlet gathers poems he has read in the course of his poetry walks, about sites in the city from the 15th century St Triduana’s Chapel to the 21st century Scottish parliament. They also present figures from across the centuries, including Deacon Brodie, Robert Adam and the poet’s daughter, aged four. Poems with Edinburgh settings by Victor Hugo and Theodor Fontane appear here in English translation for the first time.He&#x27;ll be joined by Barrie Tullett, who designed and published Edinburgh: poems &amp; translations.Copies are available to buy here, via Eventbrite, for just £6.00 including P&amp;P (normally £7.00 plus P&amp;P).

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