Disclaimer: This is an archived article dated before Saturday 1 January 2022. As such, images and embedded content may be missing. A free Robert Burns iPhone app, which includes over 550 poems and ...

Barack Obama's already picked a poet for his Inauguration—but considering the grim times, a reading of Robert Burns would be just as apt. The national bard of the Scots (they're celebrating his 250th ...

The image of poetry fans gathered in a pub enjoying bagpipes, haggis, drinks and verse is a very Scottish one, but Scotland’s national poet Robert Burns has fans worldwide who know there’s no better ...

Walk around the market town of Dumfries, Scotland, and at first glance you’ll see what looks like a kind of graffiti in the windowpanes — faint etchings in some, and in others verses written boldly in ...

Host Jacki Lyden marks the 250th birthday of Scottish poet and haggis lover Robert Burns. She hears from Alison Jones, a champion of Burns' poems. Jones is also a champion reciter — she won The Robert ...

Murray Pittock receives funding from the Arts and Humanities Research Council and the Royal Society of Edinburgh. In the Edinburgh World Heritage website’s story about Scotland’s bard, it notes that ...

The Robert Burns' Birthplace Museum is in talks about receiving a copy of songs co-written with Michael Jackson that are based on Burns' poems. Music producer David Gest visited the museum in Ayrshire ...

Robert Burns is famous around the world for his timeless poetry, however there is much more to the man than the words he left ...

You are able to gift 5 more articles this month. Anyone can access the link you share with no account required. Learn more. Folk duo Castlebay will celebrate the birthday of the poet Robert Burns ...