Beginning from the 7^th of September, 2009 Ural – Scottish Society announce an open Contest «New Russian Robert Burns». The participants translate poems of famous Scottish poet Robert Burns from English into Russian and compete in writing songs upon his poetry.

Contest Statute

You may find poetry and biography of Robert Burns on following sites:

• http://www.robertburns.org/works/
• http://www.poetry-archive.com/b/burns_robert.html
• http://www.poemhunter.com/robert-burns/
• http://quotations.about.com/cs/poemlyrics/a/Robert_Burns.htm
• http://www.love-poems.me.uk/biography_burns_robert.htm