Everything you need to enjoy or arrange a Burns Supper - just add food, drink and friends. Clark McGinn, one of the foremost Burns Supper speakers in the world, presents The Ultimate Burns Supper Book. Containing all the information you need, whether as host, speaker or guest, this book is full of advice, anecdotes, poetry and wit.

Includes:

• A complete run through of what to expect on the night, with a list of courses and speeches
• Advice on what to wear
• A section on how to prepare and present speeches
• A list of common Burns Supper questions (and their answers!)
• A selection of Burns's greatest poems, including a full English verse translation of the 'Address to a Haggis'
• Answers your concerns about eating haggis and extols the pleasures of drinking whisky.
  
  Contents
  
  Foreword
  1. 'Vehement Celebrations': Why do we bother in the first place?
  2. History of the Burns Supper - how did we get here?
  3. The Man Himself
  4. Key Ingredients
     • Haggis
     • Speeches
     • The Immortal Memory
     • The Lassies (and its reply)
     • The Queen
     • The Grace
     • Other toasts
     • Music (how many pipers fill a semi?)
     • Entertainment
     • The Poems and Songs
     • Music and Dance
     • Paraphernalia - what is the Scots word for Kitsch?
     • Dancing
     • Dress (the kilt question) (No, the other kilt question)
     • Auld Lang Syne
  5. Food And Drink
     • Food
     • Soup and Starters
     • Haggis
     • Main Course
     • Afters
     • Drink
       
  6. Your Duties
     • As Audience
     • As Chairman/Organiser
     • As a Speaker or Entertainer
       
  7. Variations on a theme
     • St Andrews
     • Hogmanay
       
  8. Wee Dinners
     • Buffeted by Circumstances
     • Student Special - the £10/head Burns Supper
       
  9. The Top Five Controversies (Solved or nearly!)
  10. Having Fun!
      
      
  Appendices
  1. Address to the Haggis - a new verse translation
  2. SeriousBurns.Com and other helpful books and websites
  3. Running Order
  4. Some Good Poems For Recitation
  5. Apposite Quotations