Thanks to everyone who came on one of the Embro walks as part of the Edinburgh Festival Fringe in August 2025. I did 11 walks in all, and really enjoyed meeting everyone and sharing the city and its poems with them. (Plus the weather was kind throughout.)

Thanks to Katie L. for her review in Broadway Baby;

“This tour has it all. I was able to see an Edinburgh I had not imagined I would see and was enraptured from the beginning.”

And to Grace Wallis for this review in A Youngish Perspective;

“A seasoned pro at making even the shakiest poetry fans feel comfortable and engaged, [Ken] is the perfect poet-historian to guide you along an intimate amble through the city’s historied Royal Mile.”

“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.

I’ve lived in Edinburgh for over thirty years and have led poetry walks since 2007 for the Edinburgh Festival Fringe and the Scottish Storytelling Festival, for the Scottish Poetry Library and Edinburgh City of Literature Trust, and for private groups.

I can also offer illustrated talks of walks on the Mile.

For enquiries and private tour bookings, click here.

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_{*Mary Woodward, Scotsgay, on Come Down the Mile, Edinburgh Festival Fringe, 2016}