He Said, She Said, I Said

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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 contributors. She Said He Said I Said: New Writing Scotland 35 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-eight authors – some award-winning and internationally renowned, and some just beginning their careers.

Contents

Viccy Adams . . . . . Performance
Jane Aldous . . . . . Washerwomen on Calton Hill
Jennifer M. Baker . . . . . Rain
Henry Bell . . . . . Edinburgh to Glasgow in Early December
Lynsey Calderwood . . . . . Bad Elements
Jim Carruth . . . . . Macintyre’s Big Horse
Linda Cracknell . . . . . The Other Side of Stone
Anna Crowe . . . . . Poem
Sylvia Dow . . . . . She Said: He Said: I Said
Louise Farquhar . . . . . Mum and I
Graham Fulton . . . . . Whatever You Do Don’t Smile
Gordon Gibson . . . . . Sirloin
Mandy Haggith . . . . . Alphabet
Brian Hamill . . . . . A Good Listener
Lydia Harris . . . . . Goat: An Assay
Sarah Isaac . . . . . Stalking Deer
Andy Jackson . . . . . I Feel Love
Nadine Aisha Jassat . . . . . Auntie
Brian Johnstone . . . . . The Arthur’s Seat Coffins
Lis Lee . . . . . Road Ending
Wes Lee . . . . . Body, Did You Know?
Joan Lennon . . . . . Icarus’ Mother
Robin Lloyd-Jones . . . . . Checking Out the Czechs with Jackson
Rose McDonagh . . . . . Owlets
Ian McDonough . . . . . Banshee
Alan Macfarlane . . . . . Shiogama Docks / Hitting the Town
Rachael McGill . . . . . Horrible Sunshine
James McGonigal . . . . . Hearing Aid
Roddie McKenzie . . . . . The Snows of Ben Nevis
Hugh McMillan . . . . . Accounting for Elspeth McQueen
David McVey . . . . . My Memories of Seal Clubbing
Laura Morgan . . . . . On an Earth Uniformly Covered by Sea
Mairi Murphy . . . . . Your Version
Andrew Neilson . . . . . Stevenson’s Edinburgh
Niall O’Gallagher . . . . . ‘Cha Tèid an Gaol a Roinn …’
Catherine Ogston . . . . . The Stranger
Heather Parry . . . . . Wet Like Jelly
Rachel Plummer . . . . . The Woman Who Married Hadrian’s Wall
Sharon Gunason Pottinger . . . . . On a Carolina Breeze
Julie Robertson . . . . . A Note of Interest
Cynthia Rogerson . . . . . She Wasn’t Pretty
Helen Sedgwick . . . . . The Archaeologist of Akrotiri
Harry Smart . . . . . Anemone nemorosa
Graeme Stones . . . . . Sperm Whale Ashore
Judith Taylor . . . . . Fanfare / Resurrection
Jacqueline Thompson . . . . . Sycorax
Colin Will . . . . . Ink
John Young . . . . . Ma Wee Buik o Genesis