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Fiona Paterson completed her PhD in Scottish Literature at the University of Glasgow in 2024, with a thesis entitled ‘Hugh MacDiarmid, Poetry, and the Idea of World Language’. She is co-editor of an upcoming collected volume of essays on Hugh MacDiarmid which marks 100 years of MacDiarmid in print.
Gerda Stevenson’s short stories in her latest collection, Cat Wumman: Tales o Nine Lives, range from the haunting – in depictions of unsettling dalliances with the supernatural – to the comforting – in the exploration of human relationships guided by connection and hope. Narratives that are, on the one hand, thoughtful reflections on universal themes (life, […]
In Love Goes North Julie McNeill takes her reader on a journey across Scotland and beyond, tracing memories that are both sentimental and bittersweet in poems that offer glimpses of a life lived intentionally. McNeill curates a collection that prioritise attentiveness, connection and care – for oneself, for others and for the natural world – in which […]
Imtiaz Dharker’s eighth poetry collection, published in May 2024, invites the reader to accompany one woman on a personal journey. It begins in a confrontation with the titular Shadow Reader and moves restlessly to the final point at which their unwelcome prophecy must be realised or resisted: He licked his finger, flicked a pageand told me the […]
Radiant Point: Poems from Brownsbank collates poems by Lorna J. Waite, written during or soon after her 2011 residency at Hugh MacDiarmid’s Brownsbank cottage, near Biggar. Collected by her husband, Professor Murdo Macdonald, following her untimely death in 2023 and published in September 2024, the volume offers up a compilation of love letters of sorts – […]