Full Description
New Writing Scotland is the principal forum for poetry and short fiction in Scotland today. Every year it publishes the very best from both emerging and established writers, and lists many of the leading literary lights of Scotland among its past (and present) contributors. Sound of an Iceberg: New Writing Scotland 37 is the latest collection of excellent contemporary literature, drawn from a wide cross-section of Scottish culture and society, and includes new work from forty-one authors - some award-winning and internationally renowned, and some just beginning their careers.
Contents
James Aitchison . . . . . In Aitken's Stables
Karen Ashe . . . . . Iceberg
Pamela Beasant . . . . . Leaving
Henry Bell . . . . . Dear Scottish Poets from England
Eloise Birtwhistle . . . . . Wholehearted
Chris Boyland . . . . . Anderston
Sam Burns . . . . . This is the Refrain
Norman Coburn . . . . . Slick o Wid
Krishan Coupland . . . . . More a Headbutt Than a Kiss
Anna Crowe . . . . . Jeweller in the Galerie Electra, Paris
Alec Finlay . . . . . avocado
Imogen Forster . . . . . Opencast Arcimboldo
Pippa Goldschmidt . . . . . Reading My Grandfather's German Passport
Stephanie Green . . . . . Crimson
Lesley Harrison . . . . . Eday, North Isles
Izabela Ilowska . . . . . Bones
Anita John . . . . . Someone Shouted
Shane Johnstone . . . . . The Wurl As Experiencit Bi Seamus Richardson Oan The 18th Auguste
Suzy A. Kelly . . . . . Thrum
Ingrid Leonard . . . . . Maeshowe - I / Maeshowe - II
Shona McCombes . . . . . Among the Pigeons
Neil McCrindle . . . . . On the Cup
Stuart Macdonald . . . . . White Wind Turbine, Harthill
Crisdean MacIlleBhain . . . . . Mo Shearmon
Laura Muetzelfeldt . . . . . Anna on the Wing
Colette O'Connor . . . . . Looking at an Eighteenth-century Atlas
Niall O'Gallagher . . . . . Blàth na Bealtaine / Bearnain-Bhride
Pip Osmond-Wiliams . . . . . Tantallon Road
Alycia Pirmohamed . . . . . Ebb and Flow
Martin Raymond . . . . . One Week in the White City
Calum Rodger . . . . . Press X to Jump in Mass Grave
Cynthia Rogerson . . . . . South Van Ness 1971
Mark Russell . . . . . Men, As A Matter of Fact
Finola Scott . . . . . Moss
Elissa Soave . . . . . Blood
Dan Spencer . . . . . Our Common Areas
Iain Twiddy . . . . . Maybe
Lois Wappler . . . . . Blether
Lynnda Wardle . . . . . The Fight
Helen Welsh . . . . . Fairy Fay
Mary Wight . . . . . 3-2=1