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New Writing Scotland 34

TALKING ABOUT LOBSTERS

Edited by Gerry Cambridge & Diana Hendry

Published in: Paperback, 224 pages. 
By: Association for Scottish Literary Studies, Glasgow, August 2016. 
Price: £9.95 
ISBN 978-1-906841-26-3

Cover image by Ailsa Black
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Out of print

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. Available this summer, Talking About Lobsters: New Writing Scotland 34 is the latest collection of excellent contemporary literature, drawn from a wide cross-section of Scottish culture and society, and includes new work from more than fifty authors – some award-winning and internationally renowned, and some just beginning their careers. 

Contents

  • James Aitchison . . . . . Smell
  • Ruth Aylett . . . . . Nothing to Tell
  • Pamela Beasant . . . . . Lerwick and Lise
  • Simon Berry . . . . . Scotch Pumice
  • Uilleam Blacker . . . . . Crossing the Line
  • Sheena Blackhall . . . . . Dyeuk’s Dowp
  • Tom Bryan . . . . . Except You, Son
  • Jim Carruth . . . . . Rhino in the Room
  • Andrew Cattanach . . . . . Playtime
  • Regi Claire . . . . . As If It Was a Game
  • Ken Cockburn . . . . . Poem for my Father on his
    Seventy-ninth Birthday
  • Graham Fulton . . . . . Sheeps
  • Lesley Glaister . . . . . Hogweed / World Service
  • Andrew Greig . . . . . Kittlenaked Wood
  • Brian Hamill . . . . . The Other Side of the Door
  • William Hershaw . . . . . The Tempest: Ariel’s Sang
  • Lucy Ingrams . . . . . Jalopy Freeze / Slow Air
  • Alexander Lang . . . . . Insigne
  • Marcas Mac an Tuairneir . . . . . Ostaig / Uaireannan
  • James McGonigal . . . . . Left-Right Coalition Set to Fall
  • Jennifer McGregor . . . . . Lost Love
  • Crìsdean MacIlleBhàin . . . . . Màthair Vuillard
  • Lorn Macintyre . . . . . Barrowland
  • Alan Mackay . . . . . Hotel Terminal
  • David Shaw Mackenzie . . . . . The Servant
  • Victoria MacKenzie . . . . . Talking About Lobsters
  • Palma McKeown . . . . . How to be Scots-Italian
  • Ann MacKinnon . . . . . The Winter Visitor
  • Olivia McMahon . . . . . The Journey
  • Hugh McMillan . . . . . Settlement
  • Marion F. Morrison . . . . . Mairi a Magdala, na h-aonar le a smuaintean
  • Daniel Murphy . . . . . Crawford
  • Donald S. Murray . . . . . Polish Songs Overheard at the Hydro Dam / Traditions
  • Stephen Nelson . . . . . All About Arlene
  • Niall O’Gallagher . . . . . ‘Ghille Bhig …’
  • B. D. Owens . . . . . Home Coming
  • Chris Powici . . . . . The Wild Summer
  • Stewart Sanderson . . . . . Sir Leonard Woolley, Ur
  • Caroline von Schmalensee . . . . . Makiruku’s First Courtship
  • Andrew Sclater . . . . . Orders
  • Catherine Simpson . . . . . Female: Insane
  • Morelle Smith . . . . . Tibor on the Train
  • Sarah Smith . . . . . Son of The Mars
  • James Spence . . . . . The Directory on Leopold Place
  • Sheila Templeton . . . . . Workin Men / War Record
  • Tia Thomson . . . . . Tiodhlac
  • Aisha Tufail . . . . . Bucket Bath
  • David Underdown . . . . . Bothy Lands
  • Ryan Vance . . . . . Finch and Crow Do the Alleycat
  • Lynnda Wardle . . . . . Johannesburg Memoir: Three Fragments
  • Greg Whelan . . . . . When the Water Quickens
  • Sarah Whiteside . . . . . Little Bird
  • Mary Wight . . . . . Catching Snow