A five minute field recording taken on the esplanade at West Shore Road in Granton, Edinburgh on the morning of 27 January 2017.

West Shore Road, Granton, 27 January 2017

A three minute field recording taken in a copse of trees off Marine Drive in Granton, Edinburgh on the morning of 10 February 2017. The cheering was a group of young men down at the water. They seemed happy with their lot.

In the trees on Marine Drive, Granton, 10 February 2017

An 8 minute recording captured inside one of the ground floor windows of the 19th century water tower on Cammo Estate, Edinburgh. There are birds, lots of bird; but there's also a heavy wooden knocking, as though something else was in there, moving.

Cammo Estate Water Tower, 10 March 2017

A 4 minute recording captured by the banks of the River Almond in the ruins of Jock Howieson's cottage.

Ruined cottage by the River Almond, 16 June 2017

A three minute field recording of a stream at Eagle Rock flowing into the bay.

Stream on the beach at Eagle Rock, 16 June 2017

A five minute field recording captured beside the (sealed) catacombs at Warriston Cemetery, Edinburgh.

Warriston Cemetery catacombs, 18 September 2017

A five minute field recording captured underneath the railway bridge in  Warriston Cemetery, Edinburgh.

Warriston Cemetery railway bridge, 18 September 2017

A twelve minute recording captured on an obelisk in the centre of Warriston Cemetery, Edinburgh.

Warriston Cemetery, 17 September 2017

Edinburgh Drift is an attempt to distill my thoughts and feelings about the idea of place as it relates to Edinburgh and the surrounding area; to create a poetry of the commonplace and, at the same time, of the uncommon, the hidden and the numinous. More than anything, I’m striving to locate, and thus bring out in the writing, photographs and field recordings on the site, an overlay of the dream on our more mundane diurnal geographies.

Although I originally come from the opposite side of the country, Edinburgh has been my home for more than 20 years. I’m still uncovering its secrets even now.

I’m on Twitter as @EdinDrift, where I post more frequently than the main pieces here, and you can also get in touch with me by email using the address edindrift (at) gmail (dot) com – I’d love to hear from you. You can also join on Facebook (search "Edinburgh Drift").