Robert Burns’ To A Mouse is a poem loved by many – but few really understand it. On the anniversary of his birth, Fiona Macdonald examines its appeal.

On Turning Her up in Her Nest with the Plough, November, 1785 Wee, sleekit, cowrin, tim'rous beastie, O, what a panic's in thy breastie! Thou need na start awa sae hasty, Wi' bickering brattle! I ...

He was just an ordinary mouse, nothing special. He lived, very briefly, 237 years ago, in the laboratory of a great chemist, Joseph Priestley. Here he sits, in his cage. There were lots of mice in ...

Megan Grumbling is a poet and writer who lives in Portland. DEEP WATER: Maine Poems is produced in collaboration with the ...

the mice poisons I might, in the future, want for myself. We watch each mouse like a crystal ball. I wish it was perfect, but sometimes the death we see doesn’t happen when we try it again in my ...

In fact, this is simply the English-language paraphrasing of the original Scottish poem, which reads, “The best-laid schemes o’ mice an’ men gang aft agley.” 6. Of Mice and Men was ...

The annual Burns Supper celebrates the life of the poet laureate of Scotland, Robert Burns. Attendees can dance, drink, enjoy poetry, and celebrate the region’s Scottish heritage.

Robert Burns’ To A Mouse is a poem loved by many – but few really understand it. On the anniversary of his birth, Fiona Macdonald examines its appeal.