Category: Summer 2017

Girvan
by Rachel McCrum Girvan Whit’s yer hurry ? That great big sea turtle of Ailsa Craig waiting to finally lumber up evill scattering barnacles and

Unbuilding a house
by Rachel McCrum I am unbuilding a house. Across the living room floor, bricks lie rubbled. Without fail, each morning, I carefully stub my toes,

What’s This You’re Writing?
by Rab Wilson What’s This You’re Writing? English Version There’s none care now about the poet’s work Least of all, not round here anyway.

Hedgehog Girl
by Vicki Feaver I was born bristling with prickles. My mother shaved me with a razor. When my prickles grew back: longer, thicker, sharper, she

The Surgeon’s Widow
by Vicki Feaver I dug all night in the company of moths — drawn from the dark to the bright beam of my torch — recovering first his skull, last,

On the latest discovery of an exoplanet.
by Pippa Goldschmidt Stutter–dots of light break up the sky, a bright Morse code that we love to crack. But even after we receive the

The (indirect) evidence for dark matter as inferred from the higher-than-predicted speed of galaxy rotations
by Pippa Goldschmidt The (indirect) evidence for dark matter as inferred from the higher-than-predicted speed of galaxy rotations i.m. Vera Rubin

A Course in Miracles
by Patricia Ace My cousin is taking a course in miracles. She rises at five to the cries of the birds, the tropical light bleaching the room

The Best Day of Your Life
by Patricia Ace The Best Day of Your Life 4th August 1962 You envied the girls who’d had to get married: their hasty ceremonies, their

Split
by Niall Campbell One night I was sitting by my inner life and it was such a little fire and, here and here, the snow was coming down. Doesn’t