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Current Issue: Autumn/Winter 2011 (#19)

A Father’s War

Dunkirk Poems by Ian McDonough

John Glenday, Margot Henderson & Maggie Wallis discuss writing & wellbeing

Bàrdachd ùr le Alasdair Caimbeul,Dòmhnall S. Moireach is eile

New poetry and fiction including Sheena Blackhall, George Gunn, Jim C Wilson, Niall Campbell, Alison Napier & Robin Fulton Macpherson

In the reviews section:

Angus Peter Campbell, Zoë Strachan and a stunning new anthology of Island Poetry


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Across the Bridge
by Morag Joss (Published by Alma Books) REVIEW BY CAROL McKAY
 
And then forever
by Christine De Luca (Published by The Shetland Times Ltd) REVIEW BY KENNETH STEVEN
 
Foula - The Time of My Life
by Christopher Mylne (Published by The Islands Book Trust) REVIEW BY CHRISTIE WILLIAMSON
 
Men Of Spirit And Enterprise. Scots And Orkneymen In The Hudson’s Bay Company 1780-1821
by Suzanne Rigg (Published by John Donald) REVIEW BY CATHERINE TURNBULL
 
Patrick Neill, Doyen Of Scottish Horticulture
by Forbes W. Robertson (Published by Whittles Publishing) REVIEW BY SALLY EVANS
 
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by Gordon MacLeod (Published by Kindle) REVIEW BY TONY ROSS
 
The Best British Poetry 2011
by Roddy Lumsden (Published by Salt Publishing) REVIEW BY STUART B CAMPBELL
 
The Flight Of The Turtle: New Writing Scotland 29
Edited by Alan Bissett and Carl MacDougall (Published by Association for Scottish Literary Studies) REVIEW BY PAUL F COCKBURN
 
Three Live Books
by Various REVIEW BY IAN STEPHEN
 

Audio

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Poetry by Niall Campbell
 
Corp-criadhach by Niall O'Gallagher
 

Video

Ian McDonough reads Dunkirk poems. Northwords Now is grateful to Dylan Matthew, Ruth Barrie and The Scottish Poetry Library for their help in maiking this video.

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Gaelic to English Translations

Clay-Corpse (Corp-criadhach)
by Niall O'Gallagher TRANSLATED BY JOHAN SANDBERG McGUINNE
 

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