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Robert Burns, Paul Campbell, Nicola Benedetti, BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra & Rory Macdonald:
🎵 My Love is Like a Red Red Rose
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Assoc for Scottish Literature“A Jacobite By Name?”: Jacobitism in the Life & Work of Robert Burns
5 July, Ellisland – £4
Patrick Jamieson explores how ideas of identity, naming & political memory shaped Burns’s engagement with Jacobitism throughout his life & writing
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James Hutton that true son of fire who said
to Burns “Aye, man, the rocks melt wi the sun”…
—Edwin Morgan thought so, & was inspired – by Burns & Hutton – to write “Theory of the Earth”: one of his SONNETS FROM SCOTLAND, first published in New Writing Scotland 2, 1984
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Till a’ the seas gang dry, my dear,
And the rocks melt wi’ the sun…
James Hutton met Robert Burns in 1787. Later that year, Burns chose to visit some of the sites discussed in Hutton’s THEORY OF THE EARTH. Is there an echo of Hutton’s “deep time” – oceans evaporating, rocks melting – to be heard in Burns’s “A Red, Red Rose” (pub. 1794)?
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https://sunnydunny.wordpress.com/2011/10/11/robert-burns-and-geology/
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Clark McGinn’s book, BURNS & BLACK LIVES (Luath Press, 2025), does not shy away from uncomfortable truths, & presents a nuanced portrait that challenges readers to reconcile Burns’s literary genius with the ethical ambiguities of his time
https://luath.co.uk/products/burns-and-black-lives
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Robert Burns & Black Lives
24 June, Alloway – free
Clark McGinn, author & honorary research fellow at the Centre for Robert Burns Studies, examines Burns’s connections to the transatlantic slave trade, highlighting the paradoxes & moral conflicts of the poet’s time
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Of Mice and Mountain Daisies: Robert Burns & Nature
17 June, Ellisland – tickets by donation
Led by acclaimed authors & historians Neil Baxter & Mary Craig, this special event will examine how Robert Burns experienced nature not simply as an observer, but as a poet whose daily life at Ellisland was shaped by the land, the River Nith & the rhythms of rural life
#Scottish #literature #18thcentury #RobertBurns #poetry #nature #naturepoetry
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Robert Burns & RANT:
🎵 Now Westlin' Winds
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John Griogair BellRobert Burns, painting by Alexander Nasmyth, 1787
https://library.hrmtc.com/2026/05/26/robert-burns-painting-by-alexander-nasmyth-1787/
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