Eighteenth century Scottish poet Robert Burns was remembered Wednesday night at Four Peaks Brewery in Tempe through an informal celebration filled with bagpipes and Scottish dancing. The Caledonian ...

Jackie Kay is Scotland's first black national poet. Adopted as a child, much of her poetry and prose speaks to her own experience of not feeling entirely welcome in her own country. “I wrote the poems ...

When it comes to an all-out celebration, this Scottish birthday party could put St. Patrick’s Day to shame. There will be bagpipers, step dancers and drummers performing as well as rare bottles of ...

Circumstances forced Scotland’s celebrated poet Robert Burns to earn his livelihood as a field laborer. It inspired his appreciation for the environment and its smallest creatures. However, his first ...

Cue the bagpipes and pass the haggis — The Haven in Jamaica Plain is warming up for this weekend’s Burns Night, a celebration of Scottish poet Robert Burns. The evening of poetry, singing and dancing, ...

Enjoying stuffed sheep stomach, sausage rolls and whisky is tradition on Burns Night — a holiday that commemorates the life and work of the iconic Scottish poet, Robert Burns. Ackroyd's Scottish ...

Been an awful lot of punditry in speeches over the past few weeks in the U.K. as the Scottish independence referendum has unfolded - victory speeches, campaign speeches, concession speeches, ...

Edwin Muir (1887-1959) was a Scottish poet who wrote in a plain style with vivid imagery. While he is counted among the Modernist poets, he did not share the Modernist view of poetry as an end in ...

Scotland has a proud national tradition of poetry. Days after a historic referendum on independence, we look at how poems by Scottish writers can help us better understand this moment. Been an awful ...