Talk of the Town: Be prepared to meet your makar

By The Newsroom

Published 23rd Nov 2011, 12:06 BST

IT was a rather appropriate start for the council’s most high-brow committee – culture and leisure – to begin with a poetry reading.

And Edinburgh Makar Ron Butlin’s poem about an Edinburgh downpour that was so bad that gondolas became the primary form of transport certainly seemed to entertain the appreciative audience of councillors.

During a discussion about some of the work involved in being “Edinburgh’s poet laureate”, Mr Butlin referred to a poem he wrote about trams which featured in the Evening News.