We’ve a bit of a wet and watery issue for you this time: somehow the combination of the weather we’ve been having and the theme of ‘Down the Drain’ touched a nerve among local writers, but we’re not complaining (well, we are about the weather).
As Jean Atkin put it in her poem, Scotland Overflows
Scotland’s rain / would hammer tin
Read the rest of that, and works from Derek Ross, John Horn, Sarah Zilwood, Anne Dunford, Vivien Jones, Lynn Otty, Alan Clark, Aideen Foley, Kriss Nichol and David Mark Williams (and work out how we’ve crammed it all in) in our fantastic ninth issue, out now
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