Roberta Burns - Part 2 is The Grantidote's fourth podcast. You're going to want to make sure you've listened to Roberta Burns - Part 1 before listening to this second part of our special edition focusing on Scottish women's poetry as an alternative to the annual Scottish tradition of celebrating Robert Burns' life and work.
In this podcast, as an intervention to the Burns' Night norm, Heather Pearson and podcast guests Robert Somynne, Catriona Courtier, Pauline Kirby and Hugh Hunter highlight poetic works by Muriel Spark, Elaine Reid, Liz Lochhead and Helen Lamb and urge listeners to also check out the work of Nadine Aisha Jassat, Kate Ailes, Jackie Kay, MC Soom T, Kathleen Jamie, Karine Polwart, Jessie Kesson, Magi Gibson and Janet Hamilton.