Latest Edinburgh castle Podcast Episodes
The Cow and the Photographer
Edinburgh Revisited - October 14, 2019 13:00 - 1 minuteThe cow and the photographer Beddit in ma comfy grund Chowin’ on ma dreams I spied ye wi ma half shut ee An’ heard yer pechs and groans. As on ye struggl’t up ma hill An’ heft up oan yer back A monster wi three legs or mair Came climbin’ oot yer sack. A many splindered whirligig...
The 'Bloody' Fringe
Edinburgh Revisited - September 07, 2019 12:00 - 1 minuteThe ‘Bloody’ Fringe Pushed to one side, We see the city Slide from out our hands, In annual separation; The wandering audience On their migration, Like Serengeti wildebeest, Driven on by instinct, Following, following, The stars, while The big cats lie, Waiting idly under trees, Bef...
Princes Street Conversations
Edinburgh Revisited - September 07, 2019 12:00 - 1 minutePrince's Street Conversations A river of conversations Snatched in the passing Tumble downstream In a wall of broken sound, Eavesdropped from other worlds, The private and banal, The intimate and profane, The guttural grunts, The over-engineered sentences, Of Morningside ladies, ...
Waves Against the Wind
Edinburgh Revisited - September 07, 2019 11:00 - 1 minuteWaves against the wind We are waves against the wind And have two ways to reach the shore By keeping low we hide behind The crashing waves that lead the blind But those who dare to rise and fight And lead the charge in selfless flight Can bear their chests against the storm Their silver ...
Blue Planet
Edinburgh Revisited - September 05, 2019 10:00 - 57 secondsBlue Planet We went to the National Museum To wait in a winding queue To see a piece of moon rock, It was grey and disappointing, And unimpressed, I spent The rest of my time wandering, Lost under the Blue Whale, Trying to take in its scale, This traveller of the globe, Reduced to a...
One O'Clock Gun
Edinburgh Revisited - September 05, 2019 10:00 - 1 minuteOne O’clock Gun In those Disappearing seconds Before the hour, A weapon lies, Prepared and primed, And aimed upon The uncertainty of time; Down below, Defenceless masses, Trudging through The business of their day, Dig into their Oblivious positions; As a timepiece Gives the o...
Salisbury Crags
Edinburgh Revisited - September 05, 2019 09:00 - 42 secondsSALISBURY CRAGS The terracotta curtain Collects the evening sun By hanging the cliff-face, In the air, Tipping back upon itself Like a broken flagstone, Cantilevered, Against the Momentary city, Angling back, Effortlessly, Towards the sky, Revealing the ground Beneath our feet, ...
Edinburgh Castle Guardians
Edinburgh Revisited - August 27, 2019 18:00 - 1 minuteEdinburgh Castle Guardians Sir William Wallace: “I got up this morning. I like to get up in the morning; It gives me the rest of the day to myself.” King Robert the Bruce: “I was out walking the other evening. This fellow stopped me, And asked if that was the moon up there in the...
The Scotsman Building
Edinburgh Revisited - August 25, 2019 09:00 - 1 minuteThe Scotsman Building Stand outside the building, when no one is watching, And place your hand against the stone, To feel its gentle thrum, or, late at night, listen Carefully to hear the oiled presses roll; For this was a heavy industry where ships were built, Leviathan carriers of t...
Scottish Parliament
Edinburgh Revisited - August 24, 2019 16:00 - 1 minuteSCOTTISH PARLIAMENT The Spaniard upturned the boats, Heaving them over with his imagination, Manhandling them with elegant precision, To capsize our narrow expectations, Of function, and of form; Then wandering through the brightness Of his mind, probing for a place, Between the people ...
Poems in High Walled Garden
Edinburgh Revisited - August 23, 2019 15:00 - 1 minutePoems in a High Walled Garden She sips her lemon tea Within a high walled garden, Beneath a perfect square of sky, Broken by erratic clouds, And sliding gulls; While all around, In, peaceful riot, The colours take their chance, As shadows steal, Across the grass, Shrinking, squeezi...
The Holyrood Garden party
Edinburgh Revisited - August 23, 2019 14:00 - 1 minuteThe Holyrood Garden Party They wait, In the undiscriminating queue, Each clutching A sovereign's invitation, On a white embossed And weighty card, That has, that very morning, Been ceremoniously removed From its honoured place, To call them here, The uncomfortably suited, And the ...
Stockbridge Lovers
Edinburgh Revisited - August 21, 2019 16:00 - 1 minuteSTOCKBRIDGE LOVERS Lifting over George Street With the Castle to your back, See Fife on the horizon Silhouetted all in black; Pass Thistle Street, And Queen Street, Then Gardens left and right, Then wonder at the lawyers’ row That stretches out of sight; The cut stone and the palace f...
A City's Crown
Edinburgh Revisited - August 21, 2019 14:00 - 1 minuteA City’s Crown This Queen of cities Wears a jewel encrusted crown; While others reach towards the sky And raise a multitude of hands To claim attention and respect, Elbowing their neighbours, Shouting their names, The Gherkins and the Shards, With mirrored glass, And ever-changing s...
Edinburgh's Monumental Night Out
Edinburgh Revisited - August 21, 2019 12:00 - 2 minutesEdinburgh’s Monumental Night Out Every year, on winter’s shortest day, in dead of night, Edinburgh's statues stir, readying themselves, For their annual expedition, their annual jamboree, Livingstone, the great explorer, leads the way, Then Wellington, the Iron Duke, descends his horse, ...
Flying Scotsman
Edinburgh Revisited - August 21, 2019 11:00 - 50 secondsFlying Scotsman Standing in a row Outside Waverley Station, Fingers pushed through the wire. Duffel coats and gloves, Socks round ankles. Black, Everything black. Pot-bellied trains Spitting steam Pushing and pulling Hissing, Fighting? Fighting against the tide. All come to a stan...
Balmoral Clock
Edinburgh Revisited - August 21, 2019 11:00 - 42 secondsBalmoral Clock Edinburgh's time machine Runs three minutes fast, Reaching forwards Into unknown time, and Experiencing a future Before we get there, Saving us anxiety By building a buffer Between the then, And the now; I always Used to wonder, If something Happened in Those thre...
The Bank
Edinburgh Revisited - August 21, 2019 11:00 - 54 secondsThe Bank “I promise to pay The bearer on demand” Is signed beneath With sloping hand, And on this vow We place our trust, Not because we can But because we must; For in exchange Of goods or labour, We treat the stranger As our neighbour, And on such A promissory bill, We come to...
Waverley Station Pigeons
Edinburgh Revisited - August 20, 2019 22:00 - 35 secondsWaverley Station Pigeons With echoes of King’s Cross, Ladybank, And Cardenden Hanging in the air, Two boys make statues At a pigeon, Which stands its ground, Staring back, Tilting its head; They throw another shape, It tilts again, Before it turns, And claps itself Into ...
Return from Singapore
Edinburgh Revisited - August 20, 2019 21:00 - 1 minuteRETURN FROM SINGAPORE I took my granny, In her wheelchair, To the Royal Botanic Gardens, She sat in the chair, And I rode behind her, As we careered Around the paths, Shouting and screaming, Screaming and shouting, Leaving families In our wake, Until we got To the glasshouse, Whe...
A Child's Hand
Edinburgh Revisited - August 20, 2019 21:00 - 12 secondsA Child's Hand Take your child by the hand And hold the future there Keep them upright if you can Release them if you dare
The Old Royal High School
Edinburgh Revisited - August 20, 2019 21:00 - 53 secondsTHE OLD ROYAL HIGH SCHOOL "Vivas Schola Regia" Or so the school song went, "Sicut arx in colle sita" ‘Like a citadel placed on a hill’ Watching over its city, But empty now, Empty for fifty years, Boys long departed, Old men now; And with each departing soul The memories are reabsorb...
The Scott Monument
Edinburgh Revisited - August 20, 2019 21:00 - 1 minuteThe Scott Monument I Am a Gothic Rocket, Readying For launch, Fuelled by Imagination, With a single Astronaut, He Is tired of his Legend, he is Weary of his Crown, And so We schemed Together to Escape this Melancholy town, The countdown it Has started, 5, 4, 3, 2, ...
Hinterland
Edinburgh Revisited - August 20, 2019 16:00 - 1 minuteHINTERLAND Beyond the city’s limits, Beyond our narrow field of view, Beyond the castles and the spires, Beyond the ancient and the new; It dominates the distance, In a place we seldom understand, Yet in the catchment of our minds, Lies our shadowed hinterland; It looms on our ho...
Friendship
Edinburgh Revisited - August 20, 2019 14:00 - 1 minuteFRIENDSHIP Throughout our lives, True friends emerge In short supply, Amongst the Temporary travellers Who share our path, In fleeting fellowship, Then disappear from view, Without a backwards glance; For friendship sows a seed, A bond that grows, A tie, that absence cannot break, ...
Afternoon Tea at the Balmoral
Edinburgh Revisited - August 17, 2019 08:00 - 52 secondsAfternoon Tea at The Balmoral Hotel Elegance, Plays softly on the ear, And easy on the eye, Deceiving us With a simplicity, That belies the truth; The practised polished hand, The effortless endeavour, Distilled, and then refined, Where less is more; And here, On a wet and windy, Ed...
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