This is my first reading of one of my favourite poems of all time. Anyone who doesn't speak Scots (which I'm sure is most of you) I'm sure can still enjoy this poem. I just think the rhythm and flow of the words is perfection and I'm not just saying that because he is my national Bard. I truly think he is a genius. Quite an awful person in real life, especially to his poor, long-suffering wife Jean, but one of the world's great poets.

Writer of Auld Lang Syne (well, he wrote Auld Lang Syne the same way the Grimm Brothers wrote their fairytales), and 'Address to a Haggis', he is my poetical hero and here is my favourite work of his which I hope will be the start of many readings.

I got it from this beautiful little book of Scottish Verse from that little bookshop every town has. The messy one that smells of old paper and ink and is easily invisible to people who don't know it's there.

Hope you all enjoy.