My Favourite Place

At a book fair in a church on a square in Inveraray, I read a poem by Liz Lochhead. It’s … More

Chessman, Warrior, King

Necklaced from Norway to Dublin your kingship carves into oceans

“Stop!” He sighs and brings the car to a stop for the third time in twenty minutes. There goes the … More

An anthology of creative writing from students at the University of Glasgow, in 5 parts under the theme of Silver Linings: … More

Leaves fall. What was Green and new, fades.

The jittering in Beth’s hands had returned. It was worse in the left than in the right: some quirk of … More

Water, speckled like dirty glass and white foam bearing against the black feet of cliffs screaming with mating birds in … More

‘Malkie dared me,’ I say, like that explains everything.

This crumbling nakedness within the opaque lake, a hand reaches and washes away the aches. I smile and she receives … More

An anthology of creative writing from students at the University of Glasgow, in 7 parts under the theme of Past … More