I visited Edinburgh University Main Library today, open to the public on Doors Open Day. I wanted to see again the mesostic poems, by myself, Alec Finlay and others, that were installed on the bay ends as part of the library refurbishment in 2009. Each is about a particular author whose work is in the collection; an earlier post gives more background.

Boats As buiLdings Fit fOr oUr watershed (AF)

presByterianism fRowns On loW taxation (AF)

rustiC gOds reloCated, craigcrooK’s Bucolic satUrdays inspiRe frieNdship (KC)

Cowdenbeath, thiRd lAnark, Motherwell, Partick thiStle, goldEn daYs (AF)

tHe singEr siNgs anD thE caRrying Stream flOws oN (AF)

blacKsmiths & hIeroglyphs, dRagons & miCrobes, tHeologically evErything’s inteRconnected (KC)

iMperial, pEkoe, singlO, gunpowdeR, sOuchong, Scottish brEws (AF)

Man gO Roam amonG An anagram (KC)

climbiNg trEes Is aLways alLowed

pRince! hélAs! narCisse! quoI! seigNeur! diEu! (KC)

Sister. fatHer. brEad. miLk. feLix. dEarest. unhappy. (KC)

Simmer smOol’d throUgh nichT’s cAller miRk (KC)

iS The whitE beaR seeN alivE? (AF)

horSes The pUlley Bore, Bled & disSected (KC)

enviSioned Utopias anD knee-Jerk reactIons Collide (KC)