Burns Supper Resources

Starting your own Burns Supper can be intimidating. Provided below are a number of the best websites and publications to help you learn more about Burns Night and help you get started organizing your own dinner. Be sure to also review our list of Robert Burns Resources.

Websites
Burns Night at BBC
     An excellent Burns site. You can listen to Burns' poems online.
Merry Muses of Caledonia at the Alexandria Burns Club
     A rare collection of baudy poems by and collected by Burns
Organizing a Burns Supper at iVillage.co.uk
     An informative beginners guide to hosting a Burns Supper
Robert Burns Country
     A great website with a complete library of Burns' works
Robert Burns Tribute
     A well-designed guide to all things Burns
Taste of Britain
     Our local Atlanta purveyor of Haggis and all things British

Books
Collins Burns Supper Companion
      Nancy Marshall
Immortal Memories: A Compilation of Toasts to the Immortal Memory of Robert Burns As Delivered at Burns Suppers Around the World
      John Cairney
The Complete Poems and Songs of Robert Burns
     Geddes
Robert Burns: Selected Poems (Penguin Classics)
     Robert Burns, Carol McGuirk
Understanding Robert Burns: Verse, Explanation and Glossary
     Robert Burns, George Scott Wilkie