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PUBLISHER: Sandstone
FORMAT: Hardback
ISBN: 9781905207275
RRP: £23.99
PAGES: 336 p.
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Fickle Man
Johnny Rodgers
Gerard Carruthers
21st-century Burns scholarship is making some unexpected and exciting discoveries about the poet and his work. ‘Fickle Man’ is a new volume of essays by top international writers and scholars published to mark the 250th anniversary of the poet’s birth, bringing fresh and vigorous insights into the significance of Burns.
Johnny Rodgers
The book is edited by the writer and editor Johnny Rodger, who lectures at Glasgow School of Art and Dr Gerard Carruthers, Head of Scottish Literature at Glasgow University and editor of the forthcoming 12 volume Oxford University Press Complete Burns Edition.
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