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A writer for our time to put city in rhyme
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HIS job is to record the life and changing face of the city in
verse.
Everything from the Scotland's new parliament to patients at the
new Edinburgh infirmary face falling under the pen of the Capital's
new poet laureate.
The acclaimed writer and broadcaster Stewart Conn was today
unveiled as the city's official writer in residence, despite being
born in Glasgow.
The post of Edinburgh "makar" - which comes with a nominal salary
of 1000-pound-a-year - was named after the ancient Scots word for
writer.
Mr Conn will be expected to write poems about Edinburgh and its
people during his ...
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