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Celebrate Burns Night with Muhammed Ali’s unexpected ode to Robert Burns, plus our three-step Burns supper

Robert Burns, born on this date in 1759, holds no high place today among academics. His genius continues to elude them, yet his poetry lives on in spite of them, recited and translated all over the world.

Burns Night is celebrated in honour of the life of Robert Burns, an internationally-known Scottish poet

Burns Night is celebrated in honour of the life of Robert Burns, an internationally-known Scottish poet

Its time to celebrate Scotlands bard Robert Burns once again but how much do you know about our national poet?

Burns Night is celebrated in honour of the life of Robert Burns, an internationally-known Scottish poet

Burns Night is celebrated in honour of the life of Robert Burns, an internationally-known Scottish poet

Spitting Image puppets and Barbara Hepworth works also donated via Acceptance in Lieu and Cultural Gifts schemes

An Ayrshire town is celebrating the first book of poems from Scotland's national bard.

Robert Burns, (born January 25, 1759, Alloway, Ayrshire, Scotland—died July 21, 1796, Dumfries, Dumfriesshire), national poet of Scotland, who wrote lyrics and songs in Scots and in English. He was also famous for his amours and his rebellion against orthodox religion and morality. Burns’s father had come to Ayrshire from Kincardineshire in an endeavour to improve his fortunes, but, though he worked immensely hard first on the farm of Mount Oliphant, which he leased in 1766, and then o...