Poets responding to Burns

Burns is rightly regarded as one of the founders of European Romanticism, and his nature writing helped forge this reputation. Scotland’s former national poet, our Makar, Kathleen Jamie reads Burns’ poem To a Mountain Daisy, followed by a poem of her own, Daisies.

We commissioned women poets to respond to the life and work of Robert Burns. The group, known as The Trysting Thorns, produced nearly a dozen new works, many of which give voice to the women in the bard’s life and work, including:

Agnes Wilson in The Unheard Testimony of Agnes Wilson by Morag Anderson

Agnes MacIehose in A Love Letter From One of Burns Women by Janette Ayachi

Muirland Meg in Atween the Lines o Muirland Meg by Susi Briggs.