Addressing the bard: Twelve Contemporary Poets Respond To Robert Burns.

Edited by Douglas Gifford

Ask twelve contemporary poets to respond to Burns, and what do you get? An elegy on an otter, a view of the credit crunch, a celebration of friendship, a political satire… Writing in Gaelic, Scots and English, the poets comment on Burns's poems, and how each chose to respond to the bard. An exciting and provocative new anthology. A Scottish Poetry Library exclusive!

Burns is not just for supper!

The poets

Liz Lochhead, Tim Turnbull, Meg Bateman, WN Herbert, Robert Crawford, Carol Anne Duffy, Matthew Fitt, Jackie Kay, Janet Paisley, Rab Wilson, James Robertson, Seamus Heaney.

The editor

Douglas Gifford is Emeritus Professor of Scottish Literature at the University of Glasgow.