The
keen eyed burghers of Dumfries may have noticed a lot of activity
around the Stove this past week as men in bunnets and leopard skin
toting ladies bustled around in ever increasing spirals of agitation,
armed only with Stanley knives, paint brushes and reams of tracing
paper. It's been all hands to the deck as the Stove juggles projectors,
aliens, keys, broken windaes all to get ready in time for the Big Burns Supper
Yes,
after months of deliberation; eureka moments, several shoogly nailed
marriages, shortfalls in monies, no monies, no ideas, awful ideas and
finally super, nay super dooper ideas and enough monies to cover our
costs, the First Foot show is finally about to kick off.
First out of the traps is 'Windows for Burns Night',
a project that transcends time and place and asks contemporary poets to
emulate the hard Bard Burns and speak of their own time via the medium
of melinex and a permanent marker.
The
results of this project, created by venerable Stovies Hugh Bryden and
Dave Borthwick, have been a great success with established poets
grabbing permanent markers and making free with the odes. Hugh, working
with the primary school pupils in and around Dumfries has produced some
sublime poems which are displayed throughout Dumfries. The collected
works can be seen in the windows of the Robert Burns House museum, the
Globe Inn, the Coach & Horses and on mass in the windows of The
Stove.
Naturally some were in too much of a hurry to stop and stare.
and finally from one our younger poets, Joanne Hiddleston.
* The poems on the Stove windows will be taken down on Thursday, Friday and Saturday evenings for the First Foot projections.
Posted by MMac.