All About Blackness on Sea Poetry

The Blackness on Sea Poetry is a quest to find a poem of genuine literary merit to become a lasting legacy for The Lobster Pot Pub and this delightful Village on the Firth of Forth.

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Blackness on Sea

The Village of Blackness on Sea lies 15miles from Edinburgh, and has been famed since Roman times for its Oysters.  Long associated with the literacy figures, Robert Louis Stephenson and Robert Burns whom local lore has it holed up in the village after famously upsetting the people of adjacent Bo'ness with disparaging remarks about their town.

A popular seaside resort since Victorian times the village with its sandy beaches, promenade, pier, castle and annual oyster festival, has a population just below one hundred, a mixture of Bohemian professionals, artisans, and fishing families, while a similar number inhabit the surrounding hinterland known as the Holdings where they took refuge during the Jacobite uprising.  

The village has a thriving sailing club and naturist swimming group.

Popular with Charabanc trips from Glasgow and Edinburgh in the 1940s the resort was considered by Fred Pointing for his Scottish holiday camp, losing out to Ayr.

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The Lobster Pot

The Lobster Pot in the village square of Blackness on Sea is a convivial pub popular for its suburb seafood, much of which is landed in the village.  Here the older locals gather with the landlord to quietly contemplate the futility of human existence without as much as a poem to tell the future generations of the glory that once was Blackness on Sea.