Addressing the Bard: Learning Ideas

Niven, L. and Farrell, M. (2009) Addressing the Bard: Learning Ideas. Other. Scottish Poetry Library / Learning and Teaching Scotland.

Abstract

The Scottish Poetry Library has published a new, provocative and exciting anthology of Burns poems, launched in the Year of Homecoming and of Burns’s 250th anniversary. What makes this anthology different is that twelve contemporary poets have been asked to select one of Burns’s poems and to respond to it. The result is an eclectic collection with some unexpected choices and responses that enlighten, challenge and amuse us. All of the response poems provide insight into Burns’s original work and some may have a more direct resonance with modern readers. In addition to the book itself, these supporting resources are being provided on the Learning and Teaching Scotland website. The material has been developed by Liz Niven, poet, writer, and Scots-language educator, and Maureen Farrell, an English teacher and now teacher educator from the University of Glasgow.

• Item Type: Research Reports or Papers (Other)
• Status: Published
• Refereed: No
• Glasgow Author(s) Enlighten ID: Farrell, Dr Maureen
• Authors: Niven, L., and Farrell, M.
• Subjects: L Education > LB Theory and practice of education; L Education > LT Textbooks
• College/School: College of Social Sciences > School of Education > Creativity Culture and Faith; College of Social Sciences > School of Education > Culture, Literacies, Inclusion & Pedagogy
• Publisher: Scottish Poetry Library / Learning and Teaching Scotland
• Published Online: 01 January 2009
• Copyright Holders: Copyright © 2009 Scottish Poetry Library
• Publisher Policy: Reproduced with the permission of the publisher