Below are links to some of the poems I read on the poetry walks in Edinburgh’s Old Town. I’ve made recordings of a few pieces, which are marked *; these are available on SoundCloud – click here to go to the playlist.

Marie Hamilton by Anonymous (mid 1700s?)
The Canongate Playhouse in Ruins by Robert Fergusson (c.1772)
Auld Reikie by Robert Fergusson (1773)*
from A Journey to the Western Isles of Scotland by Samuel Johnson (1775)
Address to Edinburgh by Robert Burns (1786)
Epitaph for Robert Fergusson by Robert Burns (1787)*
from Recollections of a Tour in Scotland by Dorothy Wordsworth (1803)*
Farewell to Edinburgh by Carolina Oliphant (Lady Nairne) (1830)
‘The tropics vanish, and me seems that I…’ by Robert Louis Stevenson (1890)*
Embro to the Ploy by Robert Garioch (1949)*
Courtyard Reading by Ken Cockburn (1996)
Sacred City by Tessa Ransford (1998)
For the Opening of the Scottish Parliament, 9 October 2004 by Edwin Morgan (2004)
To Edinburgh by Valerie Gillies (c.2007)