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- Born in Aghadowey, Burgess now resides in the Waterside of Derry and has been much celebrated due to his work winning the prestigious Frances Browne International Poetry Competition with his poem Owl Keady an elegy to the mountain on Coleraine to Limavady Road, and his book Dae ye see has been selected as the recommended reading for the new Ulster Scots Poetry course at Queen's University.
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Jan 21, 2016 · Acclaimed Londonderry poet Wilson Burgess recently bewitched an audience at the Linen Hall Library with his Ulster Scots reading of Shakespeare's Macbeth alongside other writers and storeytellers including Glenn Patterson, Roma Tomelty, Tim McGarry, Anne Devlin and Billy Teare.
Apr 27, 2016 · Mr Burgess, who has been criticised for his assessment that Ulster Scots is a ‘dying language’, recently sent Roamer a rather unusual but characteristically amusing “satirical piece”...
Wilson Burgess - ‘Address to the Haggis’. At a Burns Night Celebration in the Ulster Hall, Dan Gordon introduces Wilson Burgess who gives the ‘Address to the Haggis’.
Apr 17, 2014 · Aghadowey born Ulster Scots poet Wilson Burgess has spoken of his delight after his books joined the works of Irish literary greats on the shelves of Dublin bookshops.
Wilson Burgess who now lives in the Waterside area of Londonderry has just completed an Ulster Scots adaptation of Macbeth. Last year he won the prestigious Frances Browne International Poetry competition with his poem Owl Keady an elegy to the mountain on Coleraine to Limavady road.
Mar 26, 2013 · Ulster Scots writer Burgess speaks to Probus Club. Club President Graham Kane introduced the speaker Aghadowey man, Wilson Burgess. Wilson recalled how he had spent many a long day listening to the men, who after a hard days work, gathered at the Clarehill Diamond.
