Tom McGrath Trust celebrates ten years of supporting Scotland-based writers, with three ‘maverick awards’ Playwright and poet Tom McGrath and above a street performer at
Category: BOOK REVIEWS
POEMS FOR THE PANDEMIC
POEMS FOR THE PANDEMIC By W. Scobie A funeral Eight chairs Set far apart. Strangers sit in silence. Then refusing To shake a mourner’s hand
JOURNALISM: Need a new writer? Send for a supersub
JOURNALISM Bill Bryson and Graham Greene honed their literary talents working on sub-editing desks at The Times A Scottish newspaper office before computers came into
CHARITY: GUIDE DOGS FOR THE BLIND
Top picture by David Kelso, Arran
APPRECIATION: Derek Mahon 1941-2020
Patricia Craig writes: October, it seems, not April, is the cruellest month. A year after Ciaran Carson’s death on October 6th comes that of Derek Mahon: two
ANGLING: SALMON HAS ALWAYS BEEN A FISH APART
Simply Putting on Weight Delighted – a Loch Lomond angler with a silver salmon. Richard Hamblyn To Sea and Back: The Heroic Life of the Atlantic Salmon