About the Book
New Writing Scotland is an important fixture on the Scottish literary scene. The first twenty issues drew works from 883 contributors and contain nearly a thousand pieces of writing. Most of the major names are there, from Norman MacCaig, Edwin Morgan, Naomi Mitchison, Iain Crichton Smith among the elders, to Iain Banks, Ian Rankin, A.L. Kennedy, Janice Galloway and Irvine Welsh of the more recent generation. It's a pretty good roll call and a matter of satisfaction that authors like Galloway, Kennedy and Welsh some of their had early works published in New Writing Scotland. Bringing Back Some Brightness is a celebration of twenty turbulent years of Scottish life and culture.
Table of Contents:
Alasdair, Domhnall: An Tuba Bateman, Meg: Air Tilleadh Dhachaigh Beveridge, Margaret: Speedy Delivery - Verbal Estimate Burgess, Moira: Surrogate Butlin, Ron: Portrait of a Shadow Sailor Cambridge, Gerry: The Drunken Lyricist Carey, Marianne: One Way Carruth, Jim: The Balemartin Bard Conn, Stewart: Kosovo Crawford, Robert: Boy Crichton Smith, Iain: The Bridge Cunningham, David: De Mortuis Dick, Criosaidh: Dileab Donovan, Anne: A Chitterin Bite Dutton, G F: joy Fenton, Alexander: Glory Hole Fortune, Pete: A Death in the Family Foy, Paul: Interview with a Proddy Vampire Fulton, Graham: Warm Housing Fulton, Robin: I Give Back Some Brightness Galloway, Janice: Fearless Gilfedder, William: A Fate Worse than Ballet Dancing Gillies, Valerie: Infertility Patient Glen, Jim: The Vase Glenday, John: A Traditional Curse Gorman, Rody: Nam Chlarsair Balbh Greig, Andrew: Three Poems from the Himalaya Harris, Jane: Huge Wobbling Bits of Chocolate Herdman, John: The Day I Met the Queen Mother Hodgson, Brent: from Pepys in my Diary Kennedy, A.L.: A Meditation upon Penguins Kinloch, David: Dustie-fute Kreitman, Norman: The Extra Lipton, Douglas: from The Flora and Fauna of an Independent Scotland Loose, Gerry: from Synchronicities McCabe, Brian: Not About the Kids MacCaig, Norman: Two Nights MacDonald, Murdo Stal: Eadar Aird a' Mhasair is Ostaig McGonigal, James: Feet First Mackenzie, David S: Gilfedder Mackie, Alastair: The Hand McMillan, Hugh: A Guide to Dumfries MacNeacail, Aonghas: An Duibhre Beo MacNeil, Kevin: An Acarsaid Mac a' Phearsain, Iain: Leum Nam Buffalo Maley, John: The Ghost of Liberace Meade, Gordon: The Dancing Hen Morgan, Edwin: Pilate at Fortingall O'Rourke, Donnie: Dear Andrew McGregor Paisley, Janet: Due Porchmouth, Roland: Odd One Out Price, Richard: As, As Rankin, Ian: Voyeurism Robertson, James: Rene Magritte in Embro Rose, Dilys: All the Little Loved Ones Stephen, Ian: Fish Soup- A Recipie Thomson, Derick S: Ian Grimble (1921-1995) Thornton, Valerie: If Only Coll Were two Floors Down Turnbull, Gael: A poem containing the word launderette Welsh, Irvine: Where the Debris Meets the Sea Whittingham, Brian: This Shirt Whyte, Hamish: Museum Piece Yule, Rachel: Cave Canem
