Too Raging to Cheers
by Iain Maloney Let’s get this straight from the start. The Kirin Cup isn’t a cup. It isn’t even a tournament. It’s a marketing exercise by the Kirin beer company. Two international football teams are invited to Japan for a round-robin with the winner awarded the Kirin Cup. It isn’t a real trophy, it isn’t…
Ferry
by Samuel Tongue The ferry has brought me this far,slow, rocking gently on its patches of salt-rust, its broad bellyful of cars.Cormorants are drying their wings like dark angels resting from the hunt;humpback mountains fall over themselves to fill the horizon,dusted with snow and ancient words that have turned to dry bracken,or are caught, mirrored…
An Interview with Maria Sledmere
Metempsychosis A baby lay dead among bracken and apples. This the harem of the senses, soft, succulent apples; apples that knit and bead the ground with delicate red and palest, glassiest green.
An ache behind the eyeballs burns from the other place.
Did it come here, once, in a shroud of glory, misting the lawns…
Postcards
He collected postcards, old ones, particularly from places bombed or bulldozed, where street names were just the hearsay of ghosts, their stamps colourful shibboleths. He’d vanish for days with no word in search of those lost addresses. Nowadays we wait for postcards he sends second-class from the night. They always say wish you were here.
Fantasy Writing Advice from Madalena Daleziou
Madalena’s poem The Boy Who Hated Yellow was published in Issue 44, which can be read here. In this video Madalena passes on some tools that she has found useful when writing. Hear how she uses Pinterest, playlists, and an animated forest app to build fantasy worlds and beat procrastination… Madalena Daleziou is a postgraduate…
The End of the Day
Marion and I sit half way up the dune while the boys run in different directions below. The tide is as far out as it will go. In the distance white horses tip and glisten on the water under the crisp line of Raasay and we watch the last families pack up and leave the…
An Interview with JL Williams
FGTS: JL, in a Q&A back in issue 23 of FGTS you said that the book you wished you’d written was The Metamorphoses by Ovid. In your collection Condition of Fire, you responded to those stories. What draws you to myths and old tales, and how do they interact with our contemporary world?
JL: Life…
Liquorice Woman
by Angie Spoto I am a liquorice woman a fennel creature a saffron thing that doesn’t care for your opinions or your thoughts on the matter or your advice to me because I’m not asking I’m just here reading and that doesn’t mean I want to talk it doesn’t mean I want you in my ear or your fingernail running rogue across the grains…
Writing Advice from Siam Hatzaw
Siam’s poem ‘October Skies’ was published in Issue 44, which can be read here. In this video Siam gives some great tips to help get you writing when you’re feeling stuck. How can Twitter bots, Google translate, and Ancient Hebrew come in handy? Watch the video to find out… Siam Hatzaw is a recent graduate…
An Interview with Ryan Vance
FGTS: Ryan you recently published a digital pamphlet of poetry and short fiction called Minor Mishaps and you are working on your first full collection, One Man’s Trash. Where does writing start for you? What moves you to write?
Ryan: For me, writing begins at the end – knowing that when you send something creative…
From Glasgow to Saturn 