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From Glasgow to Saturn has a rich history of publishing prose and poetry. We hope the archives will serve to inspire writers and readers alike. Simply click on the issue you would like to read or download.

Issue 51 – February 2024 

  • Cover Art: déjà vu, Ashna A. 
  • Editors’ Note as five Winter Poems:
    • Untitled, Rachel Smith
    • My Mum’s a Catch!, Leonie Staartjes
    • What a long winter what a bad joke, Leah Sinforiani
    • after consulting the ripples, I have elected not to leave the stream, Meredith MacLeod Davidson
    • Cabin Fever,  Lucy Lauder
  • Lerwick Lunch Poem, Mark Ryan Smith
  • How to (De) Compose, Rose du Charme
  • Clatter, Rose du Charme
  • Empty, Alison Coyle
  • THERE’S NOTHING SEXY ABOUT A CORPSE [sicko]5, Kåre Hansen
  •  jellyfishi, Kåre Hansen
  • Woodlouse on duvet, Ruby Lawrence
  • Ferment, Jenny Munro-Hunt
  • Doe-Eyed, Megan Willis
  • looking back now, I cannot tell:, Aliss Wagner
  • optimists hope, Aliss Wagner
  • IKB, Rachel Brooks
  • Mystych, Annie Johnson
  • Cyclope Polyphemus March 2005, West Linbaugh
  • Her Hypnopompic State, Claire Reynolds
  • Alleycat, Maria Foley
  • angel bunny, chris timmins
  • nice and creamy, chris timmins
  • rhizophobia, Eve McIntosh
  • my grandfather is a tree, Eve McIntosh
  • Berlin Body Collaboration, Fraser Currie
  • Hyacinth (as monologue), Conor Baird
  • In the pomegranate pith, Hannah Parkinson
  • The Baptism, Christine Costello
  • 1234 I COUNT 1 2 MARROWS, Leo Bussi
  • accidental haiku, Roslyn Potter
  • obstetrician’s office, Bethan Pennie
  • Writers In Between, Jing Ye
  • re: poetry, Theodore Cross
  • Untitled Canal Poem, Theodore Cross
  • Steiner Overflow, er., Jackson Harvey
  • The IKEA Conspiracy, Adam Fraser
  • FOR ANDY, Dario Sinforiani
  • 404, Harvey Russell

Issue 50 – June 2023 

  • Foreword: The Creative Writer in the University, Louise Welsh
  • Personality Quiz, Ruby Lawrence
  • Skullache, Alan Gillespie
  • A SUGARY COLONISATION, Emma Urbanova
  • Nae mair stoners, Eilidh Crofton
  • Easy Peeler for a Sleazy Dealer, Maria Foley
  • Lost, Helen Ross
  • The Death of Brittany Murphy, Gunnar Lundberg
  • Barbie Girl, Eve McIntosh
  • jamjamjam, yana petticrew
  • All Inclusive, Serafina Cusack
  • She wants you to glide, Francesca Brooks
  • A Woman’s Work, Claire Reynolds
  • Blood, Supper, Blood, Lillian Salvatore
  • Globus Hystericus, William Knox
  • matins, Violet Maxwell
  • Would, E. Fraser
  • Yer aw heart, Hayley Jane Dawson
  • the poverty of exchange value, gentian rhosa
  • Everything Went Black, Gavin Reid
  • I think my therapist is vaping., Serafina Cusack
  • Vicki is a Drummer, Jo D’arc
  • Sestina: Bechamel, Sara Mostafa
  • call me daddy, chris timmins
  • Floating Curious, Francesa Brooks
  • Whatever the sea at twenty-three, Bryony McDavitt
  • Octopus, Marianne Tambini
  • RIFF ROCK SURF GOD, Nyall S. Waldron
  • The Boiler Room, Tom Gibson
  • 999, Kare Hansen
  • Choosing the right words., Alison Coyle
  • Carnal Delights I, Jock Thomson
  • love seeds, chris timmins
  • boy joys, chris timmins
  • There Were Oranges, Riya Phillip
  • Chalk not Granite, Matthew Keeley
  • Cliffs and Craggs, Francesca Brooks
  • Six Degrees of Edwin Morgan, R.A. Davis
  • Beithir, Cat Boyd
  • Translation Club, Grace Murray
  • Gaein dancin, Eilidh Crofton
  • green, green, green, Jack Bigglestone
  • money spiders, Ruby Lawrence
  • The Bunnies, Laura Skinner
  • The Tin Man, Molly Thompson
  • love object or bad taste or, gentian rhosa
  • in praise of the poet, chris timmins
  •  pansy, Jack Bigglestone
  • Carnal Delights II, Jock Thomson
  • Anniversary, Helen Sedgwick
  • abscission, Helen Sedgwick
  • Invitation, Helen Sedgwick
  • STUDY THE DEMON, Jane Goldman
  • Trainlines, Sophia Archontis
  • Dashboard Confessional, Maria Sledmere
  • Edwin’s E-zine, Mary Paulson-Ellis
  • I would never have dreamed of doing so, Nicky Melville
  • The Fungal Computer’s Ars Poetica, Vicki Husband
  • Autobiographophobia, Colin Herd
  • in which I show Edwin Morgan the world I hold in my palm, Meagan Jennett

Issue 49 – December 2022

  • Bible Study Margin Notes, Maria Foley
  • sincerity isn’t that scary, i suppose, Leah Sinforiani
  • I Wasn’t Always Like This, Claire Reynolds
  • The Final Words of Mary Stewart, Hannah Grimshaw
  • A Body of Water, Ian Farnes
  • Five Shetland Songs, Jim Harold
  • Day at the Beach, Margaret Grant
  • Lovers on Arran, Sarah Higgins
  • if i was a worm, Sarah Higgins
  • Radiator Bull, Viola Ragonese
  • grocery shopping, chris timmins
  • Bar Song, Emma Urbanova
  • Language Acquisition, Violet Maxwell
  • m4m (man for moon), chris timmins
  • ‘He’s known as Chile’s greatest poet, but feminists say Pablo Neruda is cancelled’, Lucy Lauder
  • compact disc, Lucy Lauder
  • Looking for an Echo, Julia Rea
  • Drift, Jackie Taylor
  • Steeple, Catriona Sutherland
  • Death is a lost coin, Chin Li
  • The Cleaner’s Tale, Allan Gaw

Issue 48 – June 2022

  • I WANT TO FUCK YOU IN A REVOLVING DOOR, Ciara Maguire
  • McColl’s, Liane McKay
  • A Moment that the Earth Pushed Back, Amy Clarkson
  • Psychedelic Picnic, Louise Holland
  • Heavy Splitter, Chiara van den Hoven
  • Fight in the Rose Garden, Sophy Bristow
  • you’ll see the seasons change but hope they won’t, Hayley McGaw
  • An o p (oem) ening in parts, Lucy Lauder
  • Penny For Your Thoughts, Lucia Cascioli
  • Foliation, Hannah George
  • The Spaces In-Between #1, Jules Dunn
  • Poor Old Soul, Frances Copeland
  • The British Museum, Alice Lannon
  • Full, Victoria Hunter
  • Mandorla, Jodie Leith
  • Sweet Tooth, Maria Foley
  • The Shapeshifter, Lena Schega
  • Touched, Kashish Gupta
  • Coping Mechanisms ii, Lucille Mona Ling
  • Fizzing, Isla Scott
  • away from irl, Libby Hsieh
  • Cocoons; jelly with memories, Emily Megan Foster
  • The Digestive Otter, Isobel O’Donovan
  • The Spaces in Between #2, Jules Dunn
  • A Prophetic Discovery, Nairne Hopkinson
  • Conversation, or, When I Bumped into the Postman, Liane McKay

Issue 47 – December 2021

  • Summer Dress, Rebecca Kane
  • morning glories, Kate Rogan
  • La Copla (Virginia + Elliot), Maddy Robinson
  • Pink Mould, Ruthie Kennedy
  • Driftwood, James Taylor
  • ‘In the future where I become a midwife’, Maddy Robinson
  • The Winter of my Life, Hannah Grimshaw
  • Days Spent Alphabetising, Lucy Lauder
  • List Poem, Beag Horn
  • on taking a virtual visit, Carolyn Hashimoto
  • The Horsefly, Aimee MacDonald
  • Dinner on Thursday?, Lillian Salvatore
  • To The First Brother, Morgan Evans
  • Reception, Kerry Byrne
  • The Late Shift, Paul Flynn
  • On Home, Cristina Fernandez Valls
  • After Bodywork, with Sea and Floral Curtains, Siobhan Mulligan
  • would you like to rate and review your trip?, Siobhan Mulligan
  • Moonshot, Cailean McBride
  • The Living Land, Shantha Chinniah
  • Untitled, Stephen Nelson

Issue 46 – June 2021

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  • St Caroline, EC Lewis
  • Tomatoes, EC Lewis
  • Centre, Lesley McDermott
  • Alphonso, Nasim Marie Jafry
  • Morning Visions, Hannah Magee
  • Seafarer, Maggie Fores
  • There, Not There, Martina Genovese
  • Waking Second Time Round Again As Fruit, Patrick Romero
  • How the Snake Lost His Legs, Frederick Needle
  • Cathedral, Tere Alliende
  • Baba Dochia and the Dragon, Andreea Tint
  • Spacetime Continuum, Jeremy Hawkins
  • The Call Centre, Stephen Durkan
  • there is no path out of the labyrinth, Sean Patrick Campbell
  • Drag Keats, Jack Bigglestone
  • Fanfiction, Madeline Docherty
  • Love Tongue, Carys Bufford
  • Ha’penny Bridge, Sophie Barcan
  • me, god and an out of use phonebox, Heather Hilditch
  • last home, James McAleer
  • Wipe-Clean, Martha Nye
  • Ice Cream Man, Erin Gannon
  • Garden Centre Lunch, Sam
  • Steak Serenade, Martin Breul
  • Shed With Red Baskets, Frederick Needle
  • all the tired horses, Maria Howard
  • experimental gender bias, Katrina Williams
  • Collemacchia, Lillian Salvatore
  • The End of Summer, Ciara Maguire

Issue 45 – October 2020

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  • Anticipating ‘Graduation’, Louis Allen
  • Relaxing At Home, Carolyn Hashimoto
  • june, 2019, Lizzie McCreadie
  • body percussion for beginners, 2017, Lizzie McCreadie
  • August, Madalena Daleziou
  • My Grandmother’s Hands, Madalena Daleziou
  • What You Find in the Kudzu, Cooper Anderson
  • , and it, Asta Kinch
  • Fear and Awe, Alexandra Grunberg
  • Portrait of a Girl, 2015, Meagan Jennett
  • Crindreas, Niall O’Gallagher
  • Aibreagan, Niall O’Gallagher
  • Cur na Peitseige, Niall O’Gallagher
  • Till Human Voices Wake Us, Sam Tegtmeyer
  • “sugar is not a vegetable”, Imogen Hay
  • Reflecting on January’s assassin II, Beth McDonough
  • In the bath after your winter swim, Beth McDonough
  • A Friend To Help Me Sink, Joshua Burtwistle
  • Time Moves Sideways, Colette Coen
  • What You Remember of Her Most, Amy Rafferty
  • The Eye of The Storm, Inanna Tribukait
  • Tidewrack, Amy Rafferty
  • The Birdsong Cafes of Istanbul, Mora Maclean
  • Grumble-Duck, Dave Gerow
  • Last Night, Jessica Reid
  • Poem Found On Sleeves Of Records, Jessica Reid
  • She Sent Me A Card, Tawnya Renelle
  • Gull, Amy Rafferty
  • (thine is the kingdom), Inanna Tribukait

Issue 44 – April 2020

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  • a week/a wake/i’m weak, Daniel Gee Husson
  • Dense Bonds, Georgia Watson
  • Event Horizon, Max Mitchell
  • Kissing My Boss, Suki Hollywood
  • 0 Gender Identity Disorder, Matias Loikala
  • Some Things Are Better Left Broken, Katrina Si ân Williams
  • Letters to the Lighthouse and The Angel Encounters, Nairne Emily Hopkinson
  • Cumbrae, Emily L. Pickard
  • Petal and Gemini, Beag Horn
  • The Big Fish of Galilee, Ross McWhinnie
  • Whale Fall, Juan Diego Medrano Zuniga
  • Bitter/sweet and Equilux, Josie Rogers
  • Glasgow, 1973, Cailean McBride
  • A Beautiful Game, Hannah McDonald
  • Glass and Snowstorm Radio, Melania Mihalcea
  • Point of View, Lucia Mrvova
  • Colonisation, Lynnda Wardle
  • Returning Takes Too Long and Firbush, Mizzy Hussain
  • Touch and The time, the times, Evan Colley
  • The Peak, Judith Schofield
  • Pro Patria Mori, Mhairi Holmes
  • Three Witnesses to an Occupation, Michele Waering
  • Gotland Island Games, Gerry Stewart
  • The Mountain Falls, Janet Floyer
  • The Fig and the Wasp, Jordyn Austin
  • The boy who hated yellow, Madalena Daleziou
  • October Skies, Siam Hatzaw
  • Fern, Rebecca Smith
  • Lightbulb, Emma Jokinen
  • Premium Snap, Kristina Nyagichuhi
  • Division of Assets, Niki Radman
  • Featuring artwork by Lucia Mrvova, Dominyka Sekonaite, Collette Ashby, Frederik Frendin, Jozef Gwizdala, Michael Spurway, Mila Manasova, Nina Panter, Hannah Kate Absalom

Issue 43 – October 2019

  • A Pint with Eddie Morgan and We Can Never Know Sappho, Ross McWhinnie 
  • Single Malt Decisions, Alli Parrett 
  • To Roll a Joint, Adam Murdoch 
  • The Long Lie, Fraser Malone 
  • A Life in a Bowl of Congee, Grace Shaw 
  • Index of a Mother, Kiera Nicol 
  • / Elseworlds, Shehzar Doja 
  • First Gear, Sarah Spence 
  • Grounded, Molly Moylan Brown 
  • What he makes of me, In Defence of Never Blinking, and skin|skin, Angela Cleland 
  • Threadbare, Lydia Roy 
  • Sweet Dreams, Ely Percy 
  • Unreturning, Sarah Spence

Pluto Edition: Pride – June 2019

  • new york, Aischa Daughtery
  • Sedimentality, Alice Hill-Woods
  • A Panic Attack as Found Poetry, Amy Louise Robertson
  • Outgrown, Eleanor Capaldi
  • Umami, AR Crow
  • Hooked on a Feeling, Astrid Lea-Mutch
  • Variations, Stuart Rawlinson
  • Uisce Beatha, John Tinneny
  • peach pit, Heather Hilditch
  • Nature Poem #2, Ellen MacAskill
  • things which enclose me, Allie Kerper
  • Featuring collages by Suki Hollywood

Issue 42 – March 2019

  • We Have Arrived, Camera Men, and Mosque Chairs, Billie Rose McHugh
  • Button Eyes and Icky Floors, Miriam Methuen-Jones
  • Medusa and Heirloom, Pip Osmond-Williams
  • Sister Philomena, Sue Burnside
  • Three Prayers in Reverse Order, Jamie Redgate
  • The Sounds of Other Folk, Sarah Spence
  • Milhouse Gets a Girlfriend, Stuart Rawlinson
  • Reliving a Visitation, Max Parnell
  • Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday, Weekend, Ruthie Kennedy
  • Cat Ambitions and Little Spoon, Allie Kerper
  • Strangers in a Croft House, Alli Parrett
  • Boy, Alison Raine
  • Baba Yaga, Mina Moriarty
  • Inheritance, Felicity Anderson-Nathan
  • Inside Voices, Rachel Schrauben Yeates
  • Anchor Mill!, William Burns
  • Flowers by Zelda Margot, Kevin Wilkinson
  • Tinsel Fever, Alice Hill-Woods
  • Sentinel, Steve Rigley

Issue 41 – September 2018

  • Noresund, Meg MacDonald
  • Marginalia, Aea Varfis-van Warmelo
  • Her Vanished Hand, Sarah Smith
  • Becoming and Night Train Window, Eloise Birtwhistle
  • Water, Alfie Prendergast
  • Freedom, Mandy Watson
  • Somebody Died Last Night and Inner Monologue, Alexandra Grunberg
  • Alfred Molina Is Playing Doctor Octopus, John Boursnell
  • The Mother and I Aren’t Talking and Other Tales, Rhona Millar
  • Water, Murray McKinstray
  • Epiphanies, Lydia Roy
  • The Love Bye-Lingual, Marita Arvaniti
  • mr. freeze pop, Hannah Summers
  • white on white, Nour El-Issa
  • Unidentified, Fiona Ashley
  • History Repeating and West of the Euphrates, Irene Hossack
  • The Little Girl and the Glow Worm and Moon Baby, Angie Spoto
  • Fifty Sketches for Lua, Maria Sledmere
  • Returning and Poem for Two, Steve Rigley
  • Featuring Artwork by Steve Rigley, Nour El-Issa, and Maria Sledmere

Issue 40 – April 2018

(This digital edition is unfortunately missing some artwork, our apologies)

  • opening things, Ruthie Kennedy
  • Escape to the Mountain, Colette O’Connor
  • Spiral Heart, Katarina O’Dette
  • An Atomic I, Loll Junggeburth
  • The Aviary at Tony Hawk’s Four, Bradford Watson
  • Aw Grown Up, Ely Percy
  • Green Shoes, Meg MacDonald
  • As Easy As Sky and Now That I Have You, Angie Spoto
  • Try, Swara Shukla
  • Chat, Paul Deaton
  • The Business of Being Young in Spain, Eva Ferry
  • Ossuary, Aea Varfis-van Warmelo
  • Review, Edwin Stevens
  • Quarter Life Stasis, Heather O’Donnell
  • Happy Endings, Peter McCune
  • Featuring Artwork by Steve Rigley, Myrto Papadaki, Liam Dowd, Imogen Whiteley, and Oliver Rendle

Issue 39 – October 2017

  • the history of eyelids and memoir in half sentences, Rachel Grande
  • Chicken Bones, Julie Rea
  • Lecture Series 3, Anne Hamilton
  • GALAXIES, Donald S. Murray
  • Irish Stones, Peter McCune
  • Lindaville and Calanais, Maria Sledmere
  • EST (+5) and Sacandaga, Anthony Daly
  • Here and There, Stephen Barrett
  • Alauna, Michele Waering
  • The Music in the Piano Stool, Ewan Gault
  • Funerals, John Bolland
  • Featuring Artwork by Imogen Whiteley, Lesley Mount, Liam Dowd, and Maria Sledmere

Issue 38 – February 2017

  • The Fall of the Leaf, Kerrie McKinnel
  • Beauregard, Victoria Shropshire
  • Bloody Scraps, Sean McLeod
  • Shark and October Lament, Mairi Murphy
  • Gorse Wine, Metempsychosis and this causes teeth to rot, Maria Sledmere
  • History Lesson and The Chicken, Sarah Spence
  • Abackstays, Liquorice Woman and The Nephrite Lady, Angie Spoto
  • Jenny, Peter McCune
  • La Misa de San Gregorio and La Virgen, el Nino y dos Angeles, Chris Athorne
  • Growing Cornflowers in Glass Gardens, Laura Becherer
  • Tell, Kirsty Dunlop
  • Finnish for Beginners, Martin Cathcart Froden
  • Twelve Hours Max, Vivien Jones
  • Cathy, get yer dancing’ shoes oan, Emma Guinnes
  • Shetland Pattern, Gillean McDougall
  • The Next Person, David Linklater
  • Featuring Artwork by Imogen Whiteley, Petros Aronis, Maria Sledmere, and Kamilla Hu-Yang

Issue 37 – July 2016

  • Window, Peter McCune
  • How to Be Cold, Carly Brown
  • Hiroshima, Glen Chilton
  • Buster, Thomas Clark
  • The Visit, Ruskin Gammon
  • Sunset Beyond Arran, Gordon Gibson
  • Flax and The Dog Walker, Cameo Marlatt
  • Petals, Kerrie McKinnel
  • Memo, Mairi Murphy
  • Intertidal Zone and Perfect Couple, Molly M Murray
  • Mr Steed and His Grandson, Quinn Ramsay
  • Show Offs and Crackerjack, Ryan Vance
  • Featuring Artwork by Phillipa Cheron

Issue 35 – January 2015

  • Jaguar, J.L. Davies
  • Falling in Love Like Learning a New Language, A. Westmoreland
  • The Passing, Lindsey Shields
  • Woltz & Grehm, Billie Lamont
  • Hawking Radiation and Author Interview, Carolyn Jess-Cooke
  • Cranes at The Southern General, Jo Young
  • The Tree That Didn’t Leave, Emily Ilett
  • Glasgow Vignette, Aileen McKay
  • Falsehood and The Family Unit, Alan Wanders
  • Anna, Laura Guthrie
  • Rolling News, Iain Maloney

Issue 34 – July 2014

  • Let The Games Begin, James Carson
  • Out of Order, Alan Gillespie
  • Extract from the novel ‘Coffin’, Kev Scott
  • Golden Wonder, Martin Cathcart Froden
  • Jackalopes, Paul McQuade
  • Matryoshka, Sandra Kohls
  • Medical Muses, Laura Bissell
  • Chapter One: The Shore, Stephanie Brown
  • Nirvana, Ellen MacAskill

Issue 33 – March 2014

  • Last Touch, Katy Hastie
  • Brief History, Innes McNiccol
  • Seven Years On, Siobhan Staples
  • ‘I’ from Imagist Suite, Ross McLachlan
  • From Mike Tae His Hen, Corinna Cola
  • Honk and The Shape of Sound but not the sound itself, Ian Matheson
  • Ruth’s Tea Shop, Graeme Rae
  • Alice, Rosie McCaffrey
  • When Zombies Attack, Amy Sibley
  • Inner Circle, John Duncan

Issue 32 – November 2013

  • Seven Pale Sisters, Vivien Jones
  • A Trophy, Graeme Rae
  • Hard Graft, Carol McKay
  • Reflection, Carol McKay
  • The Guizer and the Pict, Mark Greig
  • Hadrian and the Sleeping Dragon, Peter Greaves
  • Silver Nests, Gillian Catriona Bowman
  • The Dark Bird Migrates, Gillian Catriona Bowman
  • The Japanese Orange, Martin Cathcart Froden
  • Innistìde, Kevin Scott
  • The Graveyard, Katy Ewing
  • Next Goal Wins, Alan Gillespie

Issue 31 – July 2013

  • Keeper of Secrets (a novel extract), Pauline Lynch
  • From Here to Maternity, Ciara MacLaverty
  • Curtains, Ciara MacLaverty
  • Thermal Shock, Caroline Robertson
  • How We Drown, Sophie Sexon
  • Cold Case, Colette O’Connor
  • On the Campaign Trail, Simon Ward
  • Duck (Verloren Vertaling), Mark Fraser
  • Orpheus and Eurydice Head For Govan, Sheila Millar
  • The Only Burns Supper I Ever Attended, Ciara MacLaverty
  • Islay, Laura Bissell
  • Madrid, Laura Bissell
  • Veilsdorf, Laura Bissell
  • May Morning, Gillian Prew
  • Spring Aubade, Gillian Prew
  • Untitled in Mourning, Gillian Prew
  • Red Road Flats of Handa, Rachel Tennant
  • Storm of ‘76, Rachel Tennant
  • Glance of Spring, Rachel Tennant

Issue 30 – March 2013

  • The Way You Tell It (extract), Karen Campbell
  • Keeping Scotland British, and Britain English, James Kelman
  • Vote Britain, Alan Bissett
  • Independence Day, Ghana, 2013, R.A. Davis
  • A Man of the World, James Carson
  • Free Thinking, Stuart Nisbet
  • Under the Flag, Anna Gebbie
  • Big News, Anna Gebbie
  • The Snow Cat, Stephanie Brown
  • The Broken West, Kirsty Logan
  • Hammond, Björn Halldórsson
  • Edgelands, Steven Carson
  • Gaps: A Conversation, Ero Filippaki
  • Independence Dates, Elizabeth Reeder
  • Waxworks, George Craig

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

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