Robert Burns
Author Profiles

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330px-PG_1063Burns Alexander Naysmith 1787. Scottish National Portrait Gallery
photo by Portrait by Alexander Naysmith, 1787 (Scottish National Portrait Gallery)
Robert Burns
Alloway, Ayrshire / Dumfries, Scotland

Robert Burns (25 January 1759 – 21 July 1796), was a Scottish poet and lyricist, widely regarded as the national poet of Scotland. He is the best known of the poets who have written in the Scots language.

Bookshelf
100 pms war
by Julia Nemirovskaya, editor

This excellent anthology, compiled and edited by Julia Nemirovskaya, showcases poems by Russian (and Russian-speaking) poets who express their absolute rejection of Russia’s war against Ukraine.

DesyatyjKrug
by David Gay

The documentary novel “The Tenth Circle” tells the story of the life, struggle, and destruction of the Minsk ghetto, one of the largest in the Soviet Union and Europe during World War II. (Russian edition)

1. Dislocation
by Julia Nemirovskaya and Anna Krushelnitskaya, editors

This collection focuses on the war between Russia and Ukraine as seen by Russophone poets from all over the world.

Videos
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EastWest Literary Forum Bilingual Poetry & Prose Reading. July 13, 2025.
Length: 2 hrs. 08 min