"Heaven-taught Fergusson"
Robert Burns's Favourite Scottish Poet

The ten specially commissioned poems in this book pay tribute (directly and indirectly) to Robert Fergusson, the poetic master who Robert Burns most loved, and continue a tradiiton of homage while sounding their own contemporary notes.

The time has come both locally and internationally to reassess that "damned eternal Puppy" who wrote of St. Andrews with both affection and resentment. There are certainly ironies in his alma mater celebrating the poet who so cheeked its Principal and Professors, but, as one of the commissioned poets remarked recently, "How could anyone not like Fergusson?"