Promoting and supporting the teaching and study of Scottish literature and language
Magi Gibson is a poet and editor. Her new collection, I Like Your Hat, was published by Luath Press in November 2020.
WASHING HUGH MACDIARMID’S SOCKS Late at night, long after she has tucked his child in bed, lied to the ‘little scone’ he’ll see his daddy soon, she scribbles letters with a borrowed pen, a broken pencil stub. In the ghost-filled kitchen of her Cornwall birth she begs stamps from her scowling aunts, sends letters like […]
Edinburgh. Blackwell’s bookshop. Summer 2007. The audience squeezed into the upstairs room faces a dilemma. Shut the windows and suffocate, or open them and drown out the readers with the roar of traffic and lashing rain. We opt for Slow Death wrapped in the Comfort Blanket of Literature. I’m slipping into a semi-comatose state when […]