Tag: Robert Burns
It is coming up on Burns night or Burns day or week if you prefer, as I write this. Robert Burns, that is, who is being celebrated. He is …
Robert Burns: he’s the national poet of Scotland. Whether you’ve been to Scotland or not, though, you’ve likely encountered the work of Robert Burns. You may have sung Auld …
As winter begins in Scotland, days become much shorter and the dark of night longer. You may not see sunrise until after nine in the morning and it will …
A while back, I reflected on songwriters as travel writers. Poets whose work appears on the printed page and elsewhere as you read and listen have places in travel …
The Mitchell: it’s been a good few years now since I wrote this story about my early visits to the main library in Glasgow. It remains one of my …
You do not have to know a thing about Robert Burns to enjoy the stories and photographs Andy Hall presents in Touched by Robert Burns. I think, though, that …
Emily Smith finds landscape and history, and the connections between them, endlessly inspiring for her music. That’s as true for the songs she writes herself as for the music …