On Burns Night this Sunday – and 235 years after Tam O'Shanter was published in 1791 – Scots everywhere may well be treated ...

The Southbank Centre has announced poet Roger McGough as the celebrity ambassador for A Poet In Every Port, alongside the ...

I was trying to get down to the root where consciousness springs up under pressure from conflict and pain and power.” ...

This is a poem by Robert Burns. It was written in 1786 and is read here by John Gordon Sinclair .

Sometimes things live up to their name. Take Robert Frost. The four-time-Pulitzer-winning poet is known for his wintry poem "Stopping By Woods On A Snowy Evening." (SOUNDBITE OF ARCHIVED RECORDING) ...