“Last Sunday evening ORKNEY CAMERATA gave another of their superb performances to 267 people in the Cathedral.”
Orkney Camerata Pleasing the Crowds
Poetry Corner
This week we are again featuring Burns by special request of Alec Ross columnist of Burns and Lincoln featured in theorkneynews.scot on Monday. Death and Dr Hornbrook True story (1785) Some […]
Abraham Lincoln & Robert Burns
“Robert Burns is Scotland’s poet but he belongs to the world….I make no apologies for beginning my story about Burns not in Ayrshire, but in America.”
The Baronet of Burra: Episode I
“Haughty in his disposition, and imperious in his bearing…Sir James Stuart lorded it over his vassals with a despotism worthy of the meridian of Algiers.”
Poetry Corner: That’s Ma Granpa!
“When she shouts intae ye’r ear
That ye’r grandchildren are here
Ye’re already nearly deefen’t wi their screams”
Poetry Corner:Carolina Oliphant, Lady Nairne (1766–1845)
“The laird o’ Cockpen, he’s proud an’ he’s great,
His mind is ta’en up wi’ the things o’ the State; “
Poetry Corner
Today I am using a poem by our National Bard, earlier this week we published an article on Robert Burns, so it seemed fitting to use one of the poems mentioned.
Robert Burns & the Laki Volcano of 1783
“Death was everywhere. But it seems it came not in the guise of a guy in a hood, but a volcano.”
The Laird O’ Yarpha: Episode 4
“On another occasion Mansie “foregathered” with an itinerant preacher. Him he considered fair game, and resolved, for the honour of the parish, to put down.”
Poetry Corner: We’ll Meet Again Don’t Know Where Don’t Know When
“The flower that bloomed
Within my heart;
Came from no mav’rick
Seedling upstart.”
