Current Issue: Spring 2013 (#23)

Island Lives: Prizewinning Poems and Stories from the 2013 Baker Prize

Donald S. Murray, Mandy Haggith and Kevin Crowe on Questions of IndependenceNew Poetry and Fiction, Reviews Section

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Reviews Section

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	Fremont by Elizabeth Reeder (Published by Kohl Publishing) REVIEW BY Alison Napier
	Gone Again by Doug Johnstone (Published by Faber & Faber) REVIEW BY Paul F Cockburn
	Halcyon in the Hebrides by Bob Orrell (Published by Whittles Publishing, Caithness) REVIEW BY Ian Stephen Northern Lights: The Age of Scottish Lighthouses by Alison Morrison-Low (Published by NMS Enterprises Limited for the National Museums Scotland and the Royal Scottish Society of Arts) REVIEW BY Ian Stephen Flying The Red Duster” – A Merchant Seaman’s First Voyage into the Battle of the Atlantic 1940 By Morris Beckman (Published by The History Press, Stroud, Gloucestershire) REVIEW BY Ian Stephen
	Ragas and Reels Poems by Bashabi Fraser with Photographs by Hermann Rodrigues (Published by Luath Press) REVIEW BY Mandy Haggith
	Rug of a Thousand Colours: Poems inspired by the Five Pillars of Islam by two contemporary Scottish writers each translating each other By Tessa Ransford and Iyad Hayatleh (Published by Luath Press) REVIEW BY Richie McCaffrey
	The January Flower by Orla Broderick (Published by Council House Publishing) REVIEW BY Jane Verburg

Audio

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	Poems by Vicki Husband
George Gunn reads his poems:
	Badbea Revisited
	History
	Serenade
	We Are All In This Together

Gaelic to English Translations

Aonghas MacNeacail
	New Year
	Everything You Needed

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19	Poem "Furtachd" by Julian Ronay has no formatting on the poem title, which makes it look like a continuation of the previous poem. The web version of the magazine will be fixed, but the error will exist in the paper copy.
22	Incorrect spelling of Poetry Reviewer Richie McCaffery's surname.