The Ultimate Burns Supper Book
A Practical (but Irreverent) Guide to Scotland’s Greatest Celebration
Format:Paperback
Publisher:Luath Press Ltd
Published:11th Dec '24
Should be back in stock very soon

Everything you need to enjoy or arrange a Burns Supper - just add food, drink and friends.
Clark McGinn, one of the foremost Burns Supper speakers in the world, presents The Ultimate Burns Supper Book. Containing all the information you need to enjoy a Supper, whether as host, speaker or guest, this book is full of advice, anecdotes, poetry and wit. Robert Burns is one of Scotland's greatest gifts to civilisation (along with whisky) and his poetry is rightly celebrated across the globe. The odds are you'll be invited to a Supper at some point in your life and you may even want to host a Supper of your own. Whatever the case, this book will provide you with all the information you need to have great fun at every Burns Supper as guest or host.
- A complete run through of what to expect on the night, with a list of courses and speeches
- Advice on what to wear
- A section on how to prepare and present speeches
- A list of common Burns Supper questions (and their answers!)
- A selection of Burns's greatest poems, including a full English verse translation of the Address to a Haggis
- Answers your concerns about eating haggis and extols the pleasures of drinking whisky.
Some hae meat and canna eat, And some wad eat that want it, But we hae meat and we can eat, And sae the Lord be thankit - The Selkirk Grace, Robert Burns
This is the best, the clearest, the sharpest, the only guide you will ever need. - PROFESSOR MURRAY PITTOCK
A genial book that stresses the fun to be had rather than the rules to be followed… exudes bonhomie and offers practical suggestions and quirky factoids. - SCOTLAND ON SUNDAY
Mixes humour with some serious work on Burns. - FINANCIAL TIMES
ISBN: 9781910745229
Dimensions: 198mm x 129mm x 10mm
Weight: 200g
192 pages
2nd New edition