Rab Wilson

Rab Wilson was born in the Ayrshire mining village of New Cumnock. His first work to bring him public recognition was his ‘owersettin’, in Scots, of the famous medieval Persian work ‘The Ruba’iyat of Omar Khayyam’ in 2004. His first major collection of poetry, Accent o the Mind, was launched in Spring 2006. He has also written a new play that is a contemporary re-working/imagining of Robert Burns ‘The Jolly Beggars’. On 5 November 2007 he took up post as ‘Robert Burns Writing Fellow – in Reading Scots’, a new post created by Dumfries and Galloway Arts Association and the Scottish Arts Council. He is a member of the parliamentary working group on Scots Language.​

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