Category: Summer 2017

The Pot of Rouge
by Diana Hendry Sometimes I still use it, scrubbing the flattened puff into the hardened stuff then rubbing it on my cheeks as she did on hers.

The Scottish Cemetery, Kolkata
The Scottish Cemetery, Kolkata by Chrys Salt At first none of us would go there. The kids were frightened of the snakes, the tortured idols of

Strange Genesis
by Christie Williamson Unkan Genesis Shetlandic Scots I da beginneen dey wir a

Prosbaig
by Anne Frater Telescope English Version It was one thing at Trafalgar for Nelson, deliberately to raise the

Immersion
by Anne Frater Immersion English Version If it had come in a downpour we would have noticed; we would have prepared: oilskin trousers and a

Common Rush
by Anna Crowe Common Rush for Swithun The flowers, by August, brownish withered knots; but something about the way they sprout —

A Shepherd’s Voice
by Anna Crowe A Shepherd’s Voice after 2 pictographic clay tablets from Tell Brak, Syria, c. 4000 BCE The river the clay was

At Hallan Cemetery
by Angus Peter Campbell ( Aonghas Phàdraig Caimbeul ) At Hallan Cemetery English Version I call by to see my mother and father and they

Alasdair
by Angus Peter Campbell ( Aonghas Phàdraig Caimbeul ) Alasdair English Version Some things were public. How carefully you thatched,

The Ascension of St Christina the Astonishing
by Andy Jackson The Ascension of St Christina the Astonishing Patron saint of millers Above you all I loved my three–fold God;