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Showing posts with label poetry. Show all posts
Showing posts with label poetry. Show all posts
Friday, 28 February 2025

Poetry Shapes Us

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  While Burns loved the lassies, his legacy is much deeper and more wide-ranging poetically than his love life. Some of his songs are so fam...
Tuesday, 31 December 2024

Was Robert Burns a Reformer, a Jacobin or a Supporter of King George

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  There has been a debates over Burns political views. Its particularly difficult because Burns had to play all sides in order to earn a liv...
Wednesday, 30 September 2020

BURNS Photos

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May liberty meet wi success May prudence protest her frae evil May tyrants and tyranny tine i the mist And wander their way to the deil!   F...
Tuesday, 25 August 2020

Edinburgh 2020, MY LIGHT SHINES ON!

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August means Edinburgh festivals and in particular its international book festival. I grew up in this northern capital, do...
Wednesday, 26 June 2019

We Need New Stories

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Through understanding our past stories: and as singer songwriter Rab Noakes says, "a future with no past has no future". New st...
Thursday, 31 January 2019

Nations Apart: Turbulent times

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Burns and Mozart both lived in times of huge turbulence - late 18 th  century. Burns 1759 - 1776. Mozart 1756 - 1791. Robert Burns  ret...
Wednesday, 26 December 2018

Photography & Journeys 2018

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2018 has been a constructively rewarding year. I was delighted that one of Scotland’s top singer song writers  Rab Noakes  has used...