This selection of Burns poems and songs has been made by Dr James A. Mackay as representative of the bard's finest work.

Dr James Mackay is widely regarded as the world's greatest authority on the life and works of Robert Burns and his definitive biography, Burns, won the 1994 Saltire Society Book of The Year Award. He is also the author of Robert Burns: The Complete Poetical Works, Braveheart: William Wallace and Michael Collins: A Life.

Tam O'Shanter

Holy Willie's Prayer

Address to a Haggis

Auld Lang Syne

A Man's A Man for a' That

My Luve is Like a Red, Red Rose

The Cotter's Saturday Night

Address to the Unco Guid

To A Mouse

Epistle to a Young Friend

Source: Robert Burns, The Complete Poetical Works, edited by James Mackay (Alloway Publishing).