This book was released to mark the 250th anniversary of Robert Burns's birth (25 January 2009).

For more about the book: http://www.meetatthegate.com/component/option,com_author_book/edition_id,1013/title_id,794/

Looking forward to reading and releasing this book in celebration of the 250th anniversary of Robert Burns.

I read this book on a grey Saturday 'Burns Night Eve' if you will. I was tucked up on my Narrowboat with a fire roaring and it was all I could not to roam up and down the living room reciting the poems out loud. I loved the introductions to each poem and also the footnotes explaining the finer points of dialect I might otherwise have missed; both mechanisms aided my enjoyment and experience of the poems and helped me eke out further meaning to them. Who can possibly believe that such a relevant and witty poet is 250 years old?

WILD RELEASE NOTES:

I left this on the 149 travelling from Dalston to Liverpool Street after spending an afternoon of roast lamb, pavlova and reminiscing with a friend for Australia Day. After many a couple of bottles of wine and a brilliant Australian movie (Black Balloon) we warbled along to Cold Chisel's Flame Trees which led us to both comment that Jimmy Barnes was born in Scotland. As my friend was travelling to Glasgow for work the next day (Monday) I thought these both nice Burns Night tie-ins.

A bright young thing picked up the book as I left the bus and I hope he took it and enjoyed it as he looked like exactly the lad to enjoy a book of rogueish poetry.

For auld lang syne!