The Crack: James Fenton: ye cannae bit alloo tha eh bes far an awa tha bess screevener, poet.(Features)

From: The News Letter (Belfast, Northern Ireland) | Date: November 15, 2003 | Copyright information

Conal Gillespie talks about the recent 'historical' landmark of a reading in Ulster-Scots for National Poetry Day at the Linen Hall Library, Belfast

A AFTEN wonner gif thae Ayrshire fowk wha heered Burns declaim es poems in tha Scotch leid hed onie notion ava tha thir wus history getting maide afore thair een.

A wus thinking lang aboot that ha ither nicht mothering hame frae Bilfawst efter gien a lug tae James Fenton raidin es poems in tha Linenhaa Library fe...