This year’s Fringe sees the return of well-respected writer and translator Ken Cockburn to the streets and vennels of the Capital’s Auld Toun for his popular poetry walks.
Ken has read his work at venues and events both across the UK and abroad and has worked collaboratively with artists across genres as well as being a long-term collaborator with fellow poet, Alec Finlay.
He has recently been made co-editor of Presence Haiku Journal, established by the late Martin Lucas and edited since 2014 by Ian Storr, and has work in a forthcoming exhibition at MOCA Dunoon that pays tribute to the late artist Ian Hamilton Finlay whose centenary falls this year.
With an age guidance of 12+ and a 90-minute running time, audiences are advised that they will be standing throughout and required to walk or move around during the performance.
Tours begin and end outside the Scottish Poetry Library at 5 Crichton’s Close just off the Royal Mile.
Pay What You Can to guarantee entry or turn up at the venue for free, with the option of donating at the end of the show. Tickets are available from the Fringe Box Office and online at https://tickets.edfringe.com
As well as being busy writing poetry in the form of quatrains, which are four lines each of ten syllables, Ken will be leading a renga (a linked group haiku) at the Kibble Palace (South Wing) in Glasgow’s Botanic Gardens in memory of the late well-respected poet and former Poet-in-Residence at the Gardens, Gerry Loose (1948-2024).
After the renga on Sunday, 25th May, 11.00-15.00, there will be readings in memory of Gerry by a number of poets.
Tickets available through Eventbrite
Irene Brown
Radio Summerhall Arts 