Here is Alma Lee, founder of the Vancouver International Writers Festival at the 2013 Burns Poetry Marathon Reading – photo Todd Wong
Happy Robbie Burns Day Eve… Join me tomorrow for the Burns Poetry Marathon Reading… 11am at the Burns Statue in Stanley Park with bagpiper Thomas Budd
Then at 12pm at SFU Downtown – where we will Rap the Address to the Haggis!
You can register to read a Burns Poem and join the fun:
http://www.scottish.sfu.ca/sfus_robert_burns_marathon
We did the inaugural Burns Marathon reading two years ago in 2012 – Here is my blog story https://www.gunghaggis.com/2012/01/26/marathon-poetry-reading-of-robbie-burns-poetry-sfu-harbour-centre/
Here is Leith Davies, director of the Centre for Scottish Studies SFU, Teresa King (descendant of Robert Burns), and me!