To Feed a Poet - Scottish Poetry Library, Edinburgh (25/10/16)

Poetry exists on every level:

The thought, the written,

The spoken, the heard.

It must persist in every form,

At any time,

Simultaneously.

As the mind hates a vacuum,

It was a chance for Scotland

To insist

That such a place must be,

For the word to live both on

And off the page;

To coexist within the confines

Of the provided space.

A performance poet’s paradise,

The bread and butter

On which they subsist.