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Tam o’Shanter Rebooted

Tam o’Shanter Rebooted

Peter Goulding

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Editorial:
Lulu Press
Año de edición:
2012
Materia
Poesía
ISBN:
9781291537833
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In response to a competition to make Robbie Burns’ poem Tam o’Shanter more 21st Century relevant, Peter Goulding wrote two very long poems, neither of which were deemed any good by the organisers. Includes the original poem also.

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