Poetic Obituaries: "The guy was the very definition of

an important writer," says Barry Graham, who in 1992 appeared alongside [Paul] Reekie in the poetry collection Three Edinburgh Writers. "He was a phenomenon, which is why everyone's still talking about him."

He was a Fifer who adopted Scotland's capital, and in particular Leith, as his personal fiefdom and pleasure garden. "I see him as the poet laureate of Leith," says Irvine Welsh, a friend for many years. "He had this amazing flat at 374 Leith Walk, which was a legendary stop-off place. Everybody ended up there at some point."

from The Scotsman: This lost genius: The legacy of the late Scottish poet Paul Reekie

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