At a time of growing anxiety, uncertainty and violence a revival and reassertion of one of humankind’s oldest forms of ...
Throughout, the tone is tender and caring, and the poem celebrates the life of the child, while condemning the life-denying disapproval of members of the kirk who, Burns said, would 'ca' me ...
The poem was written in 1785 on the occasion of the birth of Burns’ daughter, the product of a relationship with Betty Paton, a local servant girl for which he was convicted of fornication and ...
Sara Letourneau may be a familiar face in the region's poetry scene, who found the path to poetry through a journey that ...