Two Minutes Pandemonium

Scottish Poetry Library
Crichton's Close, Edinburgh
1pm - 6pm
Free

The SPL will come alive with poetry and music as they present hand-picked selections from their audio collections, plus podcasts and songs.

  • 1pm - Kim's 78s - Kim from The Tuberians, an antique gramophone, and poetry and jazz
  • 2pm - Peggy's playlists
  • 3.30pm - Poetry Schmoetry - poetry performed by Ishbel McFarlane
  • 4.15pm - dreamy folk songs with a twist from The Sea is Salt
  • 5pm - The Chemical Poets Redux - Edinburgh's own spoken word anarchists

Edinburgh's poetry Reader-in-Residence Ryan van Winkle will be on hand to help you explore the poetry soundscape. And visitors will also be entered into a free prize draw to win an iPod shuffle filled with poetry.

Saturday 18th October 2008

Internet Links

2 MP3s to Download

Two folk-poems from The Sea is Salt, by kind permission of the SPL

Grettle Song

01-grettlesong.mp3 (MP3 Audio - 3.09Mb)

Lady of the Callico

02-ladyofthecalico.mp3 (MP3 Audio - 2.96Mb)