Fickle Man : Robert Burns in the 21st Century

21st century Burns scholarship is making some unexpected and exciting discoveries about the poet and his work. Robert Burns has also become an inspiration for a new generation of artists - not only poets and literary artists, but visual and installation artists, sculptors, and architects. Fickle Man is a new volume of essays by top international writers and scholars published to mark the 250th anniversary of the poet's birth, bringing fresh and vigorous insights into the significance of Burns - peasant, poet, Enlightenment genius, revolutionary and lover, to the new century. The book will contain 16 pages of full colour plates, will have line drawings throughout and will feature a previously unseen image of the bard. The book is edited by the writer and editor Johnny Rodger, who lectures at Glasgow School of Art and Dr Gerard Carruthers, Head of Scottish Literature at Glasgow University and editor of the forthcoming 12 volume Oxford University Press Complete Burns Edition. The essays appear alongside new work from acclaimed writers, critics and visual artists including Murray Pittock, Owen Dudley Edwards, Sheila Szatkowski and Graham Fagen.