The Flight Of The Turtle

'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 and present contributors.

New Writing Scotland 29 is edited by Alan Bissett and Carl MacDougall.

Contents

• Donald Adamson Kilgramy Colliery Speaks to my Great-Grandfather
• James Aitchison Riveting
• Amy Anderson Dancer
• Jean Atkin Photographs Between Criffel and Eden
• Janette Ayachi Princes Street Gardens / Dieppe, 14th July 1905: Night
• Sheena Blackhall The Flight of the Turtle
• Tom Bryan Iznae Jist Squirrels
• Kate Campbell Heart-Cairn
• Jim Carruth Landscape with the Fall of Icarus
• Margaret Christie Yes, We Have Free Will
• Richard Cook Lamp
• Jen Cooper Frog
• Frances Corr The Toby
• Gillian Craig Not Proven
• Irene Cunningham Loch Ness Marriage
• John Duffy My Mother Was Told Off For Saying Onions
• Rob Ewing Drouth
• Seonaid Francis Family Life
• Raymond Friel Brighton, 1977
• Graham Fulton Roman Holiday
• Margaret Fulton Cook When Johnny Comes Marching Home
• Tony Garner More Fabulous Animals
• Leona Garry Bonnie Blue
• Gordon Gibson Whale
• Cicely Gill Stoning
• Valerie Gillies Peter Pan Shadow
• Danni Glover Poem For Tony
• Alex Gray Hidden Treasure
• John Greeves Snow Geese / Waiting For ...
• Catherine Grosvenor The Examination
• George Gunn The Rowan of Life
• George Hardie Reidbriest
• Diana Hendry Quitting
• Edwige Ignota Witness
• Andy Jackson Trace Elements
• Brian Johnstone Back at Bash Street Making the Change
• Vivien Jones Goose in My Life / Small / Print
• Beth Junor Warnings
• Lis Lee Alcoholics
• Kirsty Logan Francis Observes How Babies Are Made
• Ellen McAteer Mourning in Arduaine
• Richie McCaffery Second Hand Cars / Weekend Break
• Andrew McCallum Beltane Quean / Leafs an Beuchs
• Ian McDonough Golem
• Alan MacGillivray The Broch of Glass / A Good Day for Mr Pepys / Watershed
• Lindsay Macgregor Cudknot / Settlement: from Mesolithic to Neolithic
• Cara McGuigan The Model
• Gordon McInnes Fog Shadow, Newport Bridge
• Joe McInnes The Loast World
• Lorn Macintyre Rigor Mortis
• Rob A. Mackenzie The Packs
• Liz McKibben There’s Going to be a Murder
• Peter Maclaren Traveller
• Sheila MacLeod Sacrament
• Mairghread McLundie Preparation
• Kona Macphee To a Starcase Stone, Doune Castle
• Rosa Macpherson Bears
• Sandra McQueen These Ungodly Shiftings
• David Manderson Inkerman
• Agata Maslowska The Vanishing Dance
• Lynsey May The Gull
• Anne Morrison A Fascination
• Duncan Stewart Muir The Peat God
• Donald S. Murray Widows and Spinsters
• Nalini Paul August
• Walter Perrie The Hermit
• Chris Powici Merkadale Cemetery
• Natalie Poyser Graduation Day
• Wayne Price Allotment
• Maggie Rabatski The Blue Blazer / Rabhadh
• Allan Radcliffe Old Toys
• Olive M. Ritch This Land
• Robert Ritchie Rattray Head
• Lydia Robb The Egg Wife’s Man
• Tracey S. Rosenberg The Time Lord’s Job Advertisement / For Jo, Who Was Dubious
• Kirsteen Scott Cracks
• Sue Reid Sexton The Ghosts of All Saints
• Karin Slater Tràigh Mhòr
• Kathrine Sowerby The Nest
• Kenneth Steven Gob
• Jim Stewart Balgay Hill
• Em Strang Felt Sense
• Judith Taylor Where You Feel It
• Jacqueline Thompson What Walt Disney Did For Us / The King and Queen / Skin / The Showers of Perseus
• Harriet Torr Our Dad, the Cobbler
• Kate Tough Moving On
• Beborah Trayhurn No, I Won’t Walk in the Woods / Frail Vessel of a Woman
• David Underdown Are We Going the Tunnel Way? / Home Brew
• Zöe Venditozzi Topology
• Fiona Ritchie Walker Finding the Plot / Hood
• Marshall Walker A Bit More
• George T. Watt Brammle Heids
• Ian Nimmo White Accident
• Nicola White What He Would Do
• Allan Wilson Stepping Outside
• Stephen Wilson Flood
• Jonathan Wonham Renata Perry
• Rachel Woolf An Craidelt It / And Cradled It