Category Archive: showcase

Garry Mackenzie – From Ben Dorain: A Conversation with a Mountain

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Duncan Bàn Macintyre’s In Praise of Ben Dorain is an eighteenth-century Gaelic poem about a West Highland mountain and its herd of red deer. The work below combines an original translation of Macintyre’s… Continue reading

“THERE IS LITTLE TIME FOR OUR SECRET DANCE”: CLARE ARCHIBALD INTERVIEWS AUSTRALIAN POET, RICO CRAIG

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RICO CRAIG‘s first poetry collection – Bone Ink – is available from https://ricocraig.com/. His poetry is fragmentary and cinematic, it makes use of unexpected images and voices to investigate the transformative passions and regrets of modern life.… Continue reading

“IT’S MORE DANGEROUS THAN IT LOOKS IN HERE”: POEMS FROM MARK RUSSELL’S NEW COLLECTION ‘SPEARMINT & RESCUE’

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MARK RUSSELL‘s first full collection is Spearmint & Rescue (Pindrop Press). He has also published Shopping for Punks (Hesterglock), a full collection of experimental work. His chapbooks are ℵ (the book of moose)… Continue reading

“SO BIRD TONGUES WAG”: POETRY FROM VICKI HUSBAND’S NEW COLLECTION, ‘THIS FAR BACK EVERYTHING SHIMMERS’

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VICKI HUSBAND’S first degree was in Fine Art before she trained as an Occupational Therapist; she now works for the NHS. In 2010 she gained a Masters degree in Creative Writing from the University… Continue reading

“This hurts and it’s meant to”: POETRY FROM CATHERINE GRAHAM’S FORTHCOMING COLLECTION ‘CANCER IN THE CELERY FOREST’

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CATHERINE GRAHAM‘s most recent collection Her Red Hair Rises with the Wings of Insects (Wolsak & Wynn, 2013, now in its second printing), was a finalist for the Raymond Souster Poetry Award and… Continue reading