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This edition first published in Great Britain in 2008
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Introduction and commentaries ©Andrew O’Hagan, 2008
‘A Birl for Burns’ © Seamus Heaney, 2008

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The publishers gratefully acknowledge subsidy from the Scottish Arts Council
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Quote on p. xxiii reprinted with the kind permission of Andrew Noble

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