COMMENT
Challenging Burns's attitude towards women does not tarnish his legacy
LATE 2021, I was delighted to be approached by the Scottish Poetry Library to pen a critical response to Robert Burns’ work. I had yet to work on such a challenging commission, or on a project that took me so far from my grassroots practice. The other Trystin’ Thorns, as the project came to be called, Janette Ayatchi, Susi Briggs and Morag Anderson, were writers I admired. While I had been performing my own Reply Fae the Lassies for several years. I had never had the opportunity to delve deeper.
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