Regular Readings

For the past four years, Neil has been recording regularly extracts from the works of Robert Burns. These can be heard here on the website or at the WordsofBurns Facebook page.

Neil is always delighted to get feedback from listeners or suggestions for Burns works to record.

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HAD I A CAVE

February 28, 2019

Click here to listen: https://soundcloud.com/words-of-burns/had-i-a-cave

Written by Robert Burns in August 1793 and sent to the collector, George Thomson that month.

“Had I a cave on some wild distant shore,

Where the winds howl to the wave's dashing roar:

There would I we...

Elegy On Willie Nicol's Mare

February 15, 2019

Click here to listen:https://soundcloud.com/words-of-burns/elegy-on-willie-nicols-mare

‘Peg Nicholson’ was the name of a horse that Robert Burns acquired from his friend, William Nicol. She was named jocularly after an Englishwoman, Margaret Nicholson, who during a peri...

Lament Of Mary, Queen Of Scots, On The Approach Of Spring

February 7, 2019

Click here to listen: https://soundcloud.com/words-of-burns/lament-for-mary-queen-of-scots

In Scotland we have recently seen two portrayals of Mary Queen of Scots on our screens, the first on the BBC, and the second of which is a major film production currently running...

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THE HIGHLAND WIDOW’S LAMENT

April 15, 2020

A Man's A Man For A' That

February 2, 2020

JOHN ANDERSON, MY JO

January 22, 2020

AULD LANG SYNE

December 30, 2019

The Inquisitive Child – a Remembrance Day poem

November 11, 2019

Epitaph On Holy Willie

October 25, 2019

PEGASUS AT WANLOCKHEAD

August 31, 2019

BEHOLD THE HOUR, THE BOAT ARRIVE

August 15, 2019

WILLIE BREW'D A PECK O' MAUT

July 18, 2019

THE POSIE

July 11, 2019

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Neil Macgillivray