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New Writing Scotland 36

WITH THEIR BEST CLOTHES ON

Edited by Susie Maguire & Samuel Tongue

Published in: Paperback, 184 pages. 
By: Association for Scottish Literary Studies, Glasgow, August 2018. 
Price: £9.95
ISBN 978-1-906841-33-1 

Cover image by Hayes Design
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“The publication of another New Writing Scotland is always a significant date on the Scottish literary calendar … this 36th volume of NWS has both an impressive number of strong and well-executed ideas and a spirit of ambition and optimism.” 
— The Herald

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. With Their Best Clothes On: New Writing Scotland 36 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 authors – some award-winning and internationally renowned, and some just beginning their careers. 

Contents

  • Patricia Ace . . . . . Talking to Cancer
  • Juliet Antill . . . . . A Night in Fermanagh
  • Douglas Bruton . . . . . Walk Don’t Run
  • Becky Carnaffin . . . . . My Sister Lives in a Council Flat
  • Jim Carruth . . . . . Bringing in the Cows
  • Lynn Davidson . . . . . Leaving Bass Rock Gannet Colony
  • Beth Frieden . . . . . Muc-mhara / A’ sireadh thaibhsean air tràigh a’ Bhàigh Siar, Bhatarsaigh
  • Harry Giles . . . . . The Worker
  • Brian Hamill . . . . . Thinking these thoughts
  • Lars Horn . . . . . Forest
  • Sandra Ireland . . . . . Ultramarine
  • Vicki Jarrett . . . . . Yellowness
  • Russell Jones . . . . . Cartography of a Rural Landscape
  • Jeff Kemp . . . . . This is Bill from Birmingham
  • Marcas Mac an Tuairneir . . . . . Neòineanan 
  • Pàdraig MacAoidh . . . . . Geographical Exclusions Apply
  • Eilidh McCabe . . . . . Amber
  • Al McClimens . . . . . Ode to a Burning Astronaut / Relationship Advice Part Three: Breaking Up is Very Hard to Do
  • Kevin MacNeil . . . . . Makar
  • Kirsten MacQuarrie . . . . . MMM
  • Iain MacRath . . . . . isopodum (sgliatair) / Meteor / Tiodhlac 
  • Ian Madden . . . . . Cracks in an Edifice of Sheer Reason
  • Susan Mansfield . . . . . Sloth / Eight Reasons
  • Lynsey May . . . . . Scars On Their Knuckles
  • Donald S. Murray . . . . . How the Loch Ness Monster Stole My Husband
  • Julie Rea . . . . . Shark Tooth
  • Margaret Ries . . . . . Lucky Strike
  • Mark Russell . . . . . Drama
  • J. David Simons . . . . . Remember From Where You Came
  • Mark Ryan Smith . . . . . Whaler’s Testament
  • C. A. Steed . . . . . The Last Door
  • Margaret Stewart . . . . . Orion’s Mouth
  • Simon Sylvester . . . . . The Few Poor Houses of My Sanndabhaig
  • Kenny Taylor . . . . . Cull
  • Valerie Thornton . . . . . Family
  • Aisha Tufail . . . . . If
  • Jim Waite . . . . . Collops o Colonsay / The Impedimentae o Age
  • Fiona Ritchie Walker . . . . . A Praise Poem for My Husband’s Love of Bookmarking / Comeuppance
  • Roderick Watson . . . . . A Rain Poem for Sandy Hutchison
  • Sarah Whiteside . . . . . With Their Best Clothes On