On the eve of St Andrew’s Day, we are delighted to announce the opening of this year’s McCash Scots Language Poetry Prize ...

Rosalind Smith receives funding from the Australian Research Council as the lead investigator on a Discovery Project (2010-12) on the Material Cultures of Early Modern Women's Writing. Think Mary, ...

“For a long time,” writes Kathleen Jamie in her afterword to The Keelie Hawk (Picador £12.99), “I’ve wanted to write a suite of poems entirely in Scots.” If your first thought is “But I don’t speak ...

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On New Year’s Eve at the stroke of midnight people around the globe break into a tune whose lyrics are believed to be based on a Scottish poem by Robert Burns. ‘Auld Lang Syne,’ which translates ...

For Gillian Rea, speaking Ulster Scots was a normal part of her childhood and she wants to see others enjoying the culture. A ...

Irene Watt would like to acknowledge the collaboration of Alistair Heather of The Elphinstone Institute in the writing of this article. The Scots spoken in Outlander may not be the language spoken ...