Category: Summer 2017

Gerry Cambridge
Gerry Cambridge: is a poet, essayist, editor, and harmonica player with substantial interest in print design and typography as well as a

Ron Butlin
Ron Butlin: as well as being a poet, has an international reputation as a prize–winning novelist. He is a former Edinburgh Makar /

Henry Bell
Henry Bell: is a writer and editor from Bristol, working in poetry and theatre. He lives on the Southside of Glasgow and edits Gutter Magazine.

Patricia Ace
Patricia Ace: has published First Blood (HappenStance Press, 2006) and Fabulous Beast (Freight Books, 2013). Recent work appears in the

Dandy
by Gerry Cambridge Dandy for my father and grandfather As he got older he grew increasingly more flamboyant in dress, out of a youth of

An Old Story
by Gerry Cambridge After a long absence my uncle arrived one night across the sea from Ireland. Some terrible thing had happened. Frost had

Iris
by Jane McKie When I get to the hot country I fling my sunhat down, letting my forehead bake to the gold of gooseberry piecrust. My arms will

Esso
by Jane McKie I dash from the pump: unseasonable hail has begun to javelin on the forecourt, perfume of petrol turned to freezing junk. Not far,

Visitors
by Yvonne Gray You edged through darkness, tracing the lines of longitude north. The engine droned and wing lights pulsed as you followed the

Return of the Erne
by Yvonne Gray You are ancient bones drawn into the light from a stone–lined tomb. You are golden shafts that beam from the eyrie above the