Archive

From Glasgow to Saturn has a rich history of publishing prose and poetry. Here, brought together at the magazine’s new online home, the archives serve to inspire writers and readers alike.

Issue 29 – December 2012

• A Letter from Mr Daniel Stuart of The Morning Post to Mr Robert Burns, JoAnne McKay
• Have We Broken Down?, James Carson
• Shoes, Angeleen Renker
• Oyster Perpetual, Richie McCaffery
• Gauche, Richie McCaffery
• We’re All Gonna Have The Blues, Rodge Glass
• Pinewood, Graeme Finnie
• Red Phone Box, Richie McCaffery
• Hush, Hush Saga, JoAnne McKay
• The Tower, Paul McCafferty
• The Road’s Going To Burn, Ewan Gault
• Shopping Days to Christmas, JoAnne McKay

Issue 28 – Oct 2012

• A Little Warmth, Elaine Reid
• From the 99th Floor, Bradford Watson
• Pluto’s Lament , Vivien Jones
• Pluto’s Hope, Vivien Jones
• The Land Agent (extract), J. David Simons
• A Dream, To My Mother, Maria Sledmere
• Visitation, Helen Addy
• Bird’s Eye View, Helen Addy
• Saturday’s Child, P.J Caffrey
• The Diary of Jimmy Neverleaves (extract), Grae Cleugh
• The Gifts of Silence, P.J Caffrey
• The Seventeenth Year, Pauline Lynch
• The Drunk, Björn Halldórsson
• An Insult To The Brain (extract), Maggie Graham
• White Bird’s Homage To Its Own, Marion McCready
• Brambles, Marion McCready
• Ripped and Holy, Ewan Gault
• A Murder of Crows, Ceris Aston
• You Are Standing, Eric Percak

Issue 27 – June 2012

• Nettles, Fiona Wilson
• Here and Now, Fiona Wilson
• Extract from ‘The Few’, Cathy McSporran
• Call and Answer, Fiona Wilson
• The Watcher, Sheila Millar
• Kelvindale, John Horn
• Plasticine Monsters, Alan Gillespie
• Two Kisses, Louis Pilard
• This Is It, James Carson
• A Study of the Lover through the Seasons, Andreea Roş

Issue 26- April 2012

• Apotheosis, JL Williams
• Tattooed, Sandra Webster
• Effigy, George Craig
• Growing Love, Gillean McDougall
• Skittle Alley, Greenwich, Vivien Jones
• Twelve Hours Max, Vivien Jones
• Benefaction, Sarah Lowndes
• Poseidon and Caenis/Caeneus, Hayley Rushing
• Baptism, John O’Donnell
• Dementia, John Horn
• Outside the Box, James Carson
• Quick View with Karen Campbell

Issue 25 - February 2012

• Medium, JoAnne McKay
• Some Urban Hazards, David Greaves
• Arab Spring, Aya Musbahi
• The First Time, Laura Brown
• The Lecturer, Colin Boyd
• Extract from the novel One Man Down, Gill Davies
• You Won’t Know the One with the Gun, JoAnne McKay
• Point Me at the Sky, Kevin Scott
• What Magic Is, Colin Boyd
• Nativity, Jo Lennie
• Quick View with Jen Hadfield

Issue 24 - December 2012

• On the Western Ideal of Beauty, JoAnne McKay
• Postcards, Richie McCaffery
• Crocodile Tears, Daniel David
• I Found, Kasia Boreysza
• Brollies, Anna Gebbie
• A Bridge: Too Far, James Carson
• Fragmentations, Sean Hoath
• Copper Sulphate, Richie McCaffery
• Yu the Great, Gillian Bowman
• Bare, Louis Pilard
• Flower Press, Richie McCaffery
• Cold Fire, A K Bruty
• Breathe, Jane Hartshorn
• Full Scottish, Ellie Stewart
• Quick View with Alan Bissett

Issue 23 - Autumn 2011

• Wrath of a Gull, Alan Gillespie
• If I Was Dr Who I Would, JoAnne McKay
• Somersault, Kerri Mclawlin
• The Forest, Jane Hartshorn
• The Moth, Jane Hartshorn
• Tina Takes a Tumble, Greg Benson
• Thirdness, Nick Boreham
• The Bitter Dead, JoAnne McKay
• How We Will Be Someday, JL Williams
• Bea and Baudelio, Gary McGhee
• Waking Persephone, Gerry Stewart
• Loyal Flying Pigeons, Sherezade García Rangel
• The Night the Fox Came, H.J Rodgers
• Raguel, JL Williams
• What Is It Called? JL Williams
• Quick View: JL Williams

Issue 22-  Summer 2011

• Still Life– Catherine Baird
• Counterpoint–Patrick Holloway
• Petrichor– R. A. Davis
• The Waiting Room– Bethany Anderson
• Extract from a Novel– Izabela Ilowska
• The Shape of Things– Siobhan Staples
• Three Poems– Mizzy Hussain
• Timeo Danaos–Caroline Moir
• Two Poems– Michelle Waering
• Abandoned– Andrea Stout
• Beyond– G. W. Colkitto
• Screw the Nut– Alan Bissett
• An Argument about Discovery– Katherine Sowerby
• Dickit– Katy McAulay
• Two Poems– Mairi McCloud
• Heelan’ Coo–Mark Fraser
• Depilation– Kirsty Neary
• One Consonant, Five Vowels, Zero Gravity– Anneliese Mackintosh
• Three Poems– Katy Ewing
• Falling Malady in Love– Matthew Baxter
• This is What You Must Do–Kirsty Logan
• Whiteout– Gill Davies
• Three Poems– Angela Blacklock-Brown
• Invitation to the Dance– Elly Farrelly
• A Good Wall– George Craig
• Men of the New Age– Thomas Walpole
• Grit– Carol McKay
• It’s the Little Things– Evangelia Daskalaki
• Three Poems– Vivien Jones

Issue 21 – March 2011

• Response to a Silent Reading — Lewis Irvine
• Ronnie — Jenny Kannellopoulou
• Before Tomorrow — Ian Hunter
• Two Poems — Lucy Cheseldine
• A Lime and a Sofa — Nasim Marie Jafry
• The Seeds of Love — Cila Warncke
• End — Jim Ferguson
• Glesga Suicide — Craig Steele
• Constitution Street — Katy Ewing
• Two Poems — Mark Fraser
• Celebration — George Craig
• Benches (II) — Marise Morse
• A Job for Life — Iain Maloney
• Four Poems — Angela Blacklock-Brown
• Two Poems — Patrick Holloway
• A Woman’s War — JoAnne McKay
• Two Poems — Megan Primrose

Issue 20 – February 2011

• Two Poems — Sophia Platts‐Palmer
• Three Poems — Patrick Holloway
• …and however — Josi‐Mari Zendoia
• The Book — Katy Ewing
• Three Poems — Evangelia Daskalaki
• Three Poems — Marise Morse
• Two Poems — Mark Fraser
• Phone Contract — George Anderson
• Three Poems — Jenny Kanellopoulou
• Indentations — George Anderson
• Inselberg Father — Paul Deaton
• Salto Mortale — Tracy Patrick
• Two Poems — JoAnne Ruby McKay
• Two Poems — Michelle Waering
• Three Poems — Tracy Patrick
• This isnʹt long enough to be a love story — Patrick Holloway

Issue 19 – January 2011

• Homegame — Iain Maloney
• Two Trees in Early October, Glasgow — Mairi McCloud
• Pétursdóttir — Amy Rafferty
• Harlequin Dreams — Bethany Anderson
• Ask Louise Welsh
• Clydebuilt — Elly Farrelly
• The Lift — Donald Ferguson
• View from the Interior — Vivien Jones
• Parched — Nasim Marie Jafry
• Two Poems — Paul Joseph Abbott
• Sunset on Skye — Ellen Glasgow
• Adulteress — Katy McAulay
• Erratics — Mandy Haggith

Issue 18 - December 2010

• The End of the Day — Kathrine Sowerby
• Kitty McGreal’s, Kiltimagh — Vivien Jones
• Where Do Voices Come From — Philip Murnin
• I Think Scottish Crows Speak Gaelic — Mairi McCloud
• Three Shorts — E. K. Reeder
• Ode tae the Wee Manny at the Bus Stop — Amy Rafferty
• The Chair — Lynsey Calderwood
• She Says She’s Fine — Ellen Glasgow
• Mrs Jinniver’s Compunction — Michelle Waering
• Two Ways of Eating a Seagull — Paul Joseph Abbott
• The Intercessor — JoAnne Ruby McKay

Issue 17 – November 2010

• Wasp in a Wine Glass — Alan Bissett
• Opening of a chapter entitled ‘Pamela’ from a new novel — Raymond Soltysek
• Cold Meat — Anneliese Mackintosh
• Extract from the novel Bring Me the Head of Ryan Giggs — Rodge Glass
• Three Poems — Duncan Muir
• Three Poems — Julie Martis
• Three Poems — Mukul Dahal
• Ballotement — Paul Joseph Abbott
• Vince Vaughn — Miles Beard
• The Joys of Poetry — Patrick Holloway
• Glasgow — Amy Anderson

Issue 16 – July 2009

• A Not-so-near Death Experience — Chi Ngai Chan
• The Jangly Sounds of Summer — Joe Freeman
• In the Shadows Still — Chris McDonald
• Sifrin — Richard Elins
• The Last Performance of Troilus Poe — Gary McGhee

Issue 15 – June 2009

• Scare — Ewan Alasdair Houston
• My Old Dancing Girl (Black ‘n’ Blue) — Andy Grozier
• UK Gold — Stephen McEwan
• Sunrise Beach — Andrew McGovern
• Generic Love Story — Kevin B. MacNeil
• A Clinical Waste — John Jennett
• In a church in Verona — Allan McDougall
• Taking Control — Sarah Rodgers
• Old Friends — Gary McCluskey
• Fairground — David Gordon

Issue 14 – May 2009

• When Bob Died — Vicki Husband
• Engineering Works — Mark Russell
• The Edge — Gordon Jenkins
• Respite — John Jennett
• Morning has Broken — Andrew Fullwood
• Ten Minutes — Jill Creighton
• The Crossing — Sarah Ward
• A word to the beginner — Kathrine Sowerby
• Ashes — Nikki Cameron
• Dead Drunk — Harry Mcdonald

Issue 13 – April 2009

• Unicycle Theater — Mark McPhee
• Training Sights — Duncan Muir
• Window Woman — Victoria Murphy
• The Cut of the Cloth — John Jennett
• Under a Fallen Door — Lisa Jones
• Just Smile (a dramatic monologue) — Luke Mason
• (listen) — Erik Fuhrer
• Kat’s Eyes — Alex Connon
• Auschwitz-Birkenau, May 2008 — Norrie Dunsmore
• Train to East Kilbride on a Thursday morning in January — Christopher M.J. Boyd

Issue 12 – March 2009

• Breadcrumbs — Matt Leavey
• Moonlight — Nikki Cameron
• The Sky Lanterns — Richie Murby
• The Lady With the Saints — Fiona Wright
• Anatomy — Richard Scott Pye
• Storm Fishing for Souls — John Jennett
• Blue Eye of Siberia — Helen McClory
• Ferry — Sam Tongue
• Finley Alone — Gary McGhee
• The Hot and Happy Chips — Arthur Ker

Issue 11 – May 2008

• Bessie Anne’s Post-Apocalyptic Teashop — Kirsty Logan
• Persephone Reflects, Image and Oracle — J.L. Williams
• Snap Shots & All the Balloons — Helen Sedgwick
• Calle Agla — Micaela Maftei
• Glaciation, To The Stained Glass Sky and The Old Days — James Fountain
• Little Sparrow in the Snow — Maria di Mario
• Go Forth and Prosper — Amy Burns
• Trailers — Alex Singerman
• Extract from a novel, Save Our Souls — Sue Reid Sexton
• Big Hustler — Kelly Sinclair

Issue 10 – April 2008

• Lodger — by Will Napier
• Grace and bud — Nick Brooks
• And Then — Michael Schmidt
• The Manner They Have — Jim Ferguson
• Cantsmell — Lynsey Calderwood
• A Chocolate Cowboy — John Bolland
• Cinnabar Moth, Cop, Identity and Night Sky — Angela Blacklock-Brown
• Extract from Hope for Newborns — Rodge Glass
• Geertje Dircks’ Riposte From the Gouda Spinhuis — Stephanie Green
• Flourish and Kelvingrove — Karen Campbell
• Sometimes in the night — Zoë Strachan

Issue 9 – March 2008

• Shift Work — Micaela Maftei
• Two poems — Sue Reid Sexton
• Girls in the Hood — Margaret Callaghan
• Wednesday — Maria Di Mario
• Two poems — Joyce Alexander Henderson
• Extract from an Unfinished Novel — Kirsty Logan
• A Conversation Between Friends — Euan McClymont

Issue 8 – February 2008

• 4.30 opening — Liam Murray Bell
• Three poems — Kate Tough
• For Kirsty in New York — Sue Reid Sexton
• The tube — Pippa Goldschmidt

Issue 7 – January 2008

• The Drive — Helen Sedgwick
• Marigolds and Temptation — Patricia Ace
• That time of year again — Colin Begg
• Paris Central — James Fountain
• Hermit — Barry Gornell
• again — Gabriella Jönsson
• Way Up in The Alps — Micaela Maftei

Issue 6 – December 2007

• In Tongues — Gabriella Jönsson
• Country Noise — Amy Burns
• Obruni, How are You? I’m Fine, Thank You! — Jessica Parkinson
• Bait — Elinor Brown
• Work to Do — Patricia Ace
• Keep it in the Family — Kate Tough
• Midterm Break — Ulrich Hansen
• Wilton Street — Martin Shannon
• Departure — Micaela Maftei
• Fidelity — Kirsty Logan
• Ice Cream — Sue Reid Sexton
• Monday — Jennifer Williams
• Hidden Shallows — Margaret Callaghan

Issue 5 – Summer 2007

• The Haunting — E.J. Patience
• Suicide — Mary Paulson-Ellis
• Dolls — Steven Petchey
• Three Poems — Matt Leavey
• January 22, 2006 — Laura Muetzelfeldt
• water taxi — fiona rintoul
• Sonnet — Marjorie A.M. Ferry
• Sisters — Steven Petchey

Issue 4 – March 2007

• Some Really Good Sins — Sean McLaughlan
• 200 miles homeward from the specialist — Kate Tough
• Three Poems — Joe McInnes
• Port Glasgow Gala Bingo — Sean McLaughlan
• Turbines — Sue Wilson

Issue 3 – April 2007

• a haiku — Kate Tough
• Celosia — Patricia Ace
• Bray Burial — Fiona Rintoul
• Coming to Terms — Kate Tough
• A Short Bath in Shallow Water — Kate Tough
• Deer Tick — Joyce Henderson
• Rites of Spring — Sue Wilson
• Dick — Patricia Ace
• The Lord, the Lady and the Bronze Penis — Daniel Spencer
• Dolly — Patricia Ace

Issue 2 – March 2007

• Amaryllis — Patricia Ace
• Sonnet for a Drunkard — Jane Patience
• In the Garden of the Architect — Tom Rae
• Clearing Him Out — Fiona Rintoul
• Better Late than Never — Marjorie A.M. Ferry
• Tennis Love — David Keeney
• Mail Order — Shaun Manning
• A Highland Folktale — Jane Patience
• Give the Cleric a Big Hand — Steve Petchey

Issue 1 – February 2007

• City State — Colin Begg
• Up the Dancin’ — Marjorie A.M. Ferry
• Seasonally Adjusted Dad — Sean McLaughlan
• the shape of your ease — Fiona Montgomery
• My Friendship with Moths Considered — Steven Petchey
• Research — Fiona Rintoul
• The Sacrifice — Joyce Henderson
• Moving Light — Jessica Parkinson
• The Mettlenesh Troupe — Steven Petchey
• Jamie the Thirteenth — Tom Rae