and thanks to Stuart Kelly of Scotland on Sunday who was at the signing ceremony. He said he would write something about the poetry garden. And he did. In case you don’t get the paper either here’s the online version:
Published Date: 01 June 2008
By STUART KELLY

The Browser
Can you dig it?
At the Poetry Library in Edinburgh last Tuesday there was a superb collaboration between the Book Festival, the Book Trust, the Writers’ Museum, the City of Literature, the Edinburgh Makar, the library itself, Coffee Republic and the Edinburgh City Centre Management Company (the library’s director, Robyn Marsack, quipped that they should get a poet to rename their office) to institute St Andrew Square as the first ‘Poetry Garden’. You can have haiku with your latte, and catch a sonnet before the bus. It’s a properly imaginative initiative. In other gardens, Dalmeny Street Park has started a Dada Pantomime and a Poets’ Corner – it would be great if all the city’s green spaces became art spaces as well.