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Colm Tóibín, Neil Jordan and Ciarán McMenamin in running for £25,000 award

With Burns Night on the horizon, we celebrate the life, legacy and work of Robert Burns. Let's take a minute to praise the modern Scots poets who…

Given the sheer volume of material that television so often demands, it can be very easy for a show to get stale before its time. That’s why, aside from

Burns night has been and gone, but poetry is for every night, and day. It’s a source of solace, comfort and cheer in difficult times like this current pandemic and lockdown So here, to help you through, are twenty of Scotland’s greatest poets, who aren’t Robert Burns. William Dunbar (circa 1459-1530) “Back to Dunbar!” was a favourite phrase of Hugh MacDiarmid, and the man he was talking about was a Middle Scots poet attached to the court of James IV, who wrote works that were rhetorical and lyrical marvels. Dunbar was one of a group of medieval Scots known as the “makars” an...