This issue opens with two articles marking the 250th anniversary of Scott's birth, one by Alison Lumsden and Kirsty Archer-Thompson on Scott's changing reputation and impact, and the other by Peter Garside on Scott's Last Words. These are followed by articles on Dugald MacNichol, an early 19th century Gaelic poet writing in the Caribbean, by Nigel Leask and Peadar Ó Muircheartaigh, on plays about Robert Burns with an extensive annotated bibliography, by Thomas Keith, and an appreciation and memories of the Scottish poet and classicist Douglas Young, by Ward Briggs. The issue concludes with a short article on a Burns manuscript, by Patrick Scott, and Simon Lewis's review of a new biography of the Scottish-South African poet Thomas Pringle,