Edinburgh locals invited to add to pop-up poetry wall unveiled off Easter Road
Capital residents have contributed dozens of poetic scribblings to the newly-erected billboard, which is situated at the corner of Brunswick Road
Edinburgh residents have been invited to channel their inner Rabbie Burns and write a line of poetry on a giant empty billboard erected off Easter Road.
The pop up boards have appeared in Edinburgh, Glasgow and Dundee ahead of the Nuart Aberdeen street art festival, which begins next week.
Capital residents have already contributed dozens of scribblings - ranging from the poetic to the unpublishable - to the newly-erected billboard, which is situated at the corner of Brunswick Road.
The festival, which brings together street artists from around the world, first arrived in the Granite City in 2017.
This year’s theme, Poetry is in the Streets, encourages people to see their streets as cultural spaces rather than commercial ones.
Locals will have their chance to inscribe a poem or message on the board until April 27, with the main festival running in Aberdeen from Wednesday, April 22 to April 26.
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The annual event sees the city transformed by vibrant murals and street installations and attracts thousands of visitors each year.
This year’s edition is set to be the first street art festival in the world to focus primarily on poetry and text-based art.
The festival organisers said: “As curators, researchers and producers working in “festival” culture, we have a responsibility to not only showcase and celebrate the most interesting and technically competent works of our time, but to also ensure the culture’s development and survival.
“The only way to do this, is to inspire and encourage those without the privilege of a fine art degree or access to the arts, to have a go themselves.
“This has always been Nuart’s primary goal, not just to produce art, but to also inspire and produce the next generation of artists.”
Artists announced this year include Scotland-born artist Robert Montgomery, known for his work creating "visual poems", and the Writing Is On The Wall, a street artist who creates paste-ups of poems on urban walls using a special paste gun.