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A short story by Heather Pearson

The Carry Out:

A true story by Carolyn Roberts

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Cyanotypes by Eleanor Buffam

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On film:

By Gerry Stewart

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The Tale of the Crail Crab, Tae a Fisherman He Speak Wi:

A new poem by Lauren Clarke

The Dead Hours:

By Emma Grace Manno

Velvet Engine:

By Heather Pearson

From the archive

Art

Megan Kennedy Wind Drawing

Wild is the wind:

Megan Kennedy’s immersive drawings capture the hypnotic power of nature

Books

Books of 2019:

Petra Reid on a radical ’60s classic still relevant today

Collaborations

Coastal Aerial View by Alison McGill, Oil and wax on board

The pipeline:

A short story by Frank Rennie, inspired by Alison McGill’s painting ‘Coastal Aerial View’.

Film

Down the rabbit hole:

Happy Birthday to Fantasia which first graced cinema screens in 1940. Nathanael Smith on a genuinely bravura classic

Ideas

don mclean american pie

The day the music died:

A manuscript of original lyrics to Don McLean’s epic American Pie was recently auctioned in New York. Simon Warner explores the backdrop to the song’s conception and the hidden meanings behind its much-coveted words

Music

Louder than bombs:

Neil Cooper on the new album by Scotland’s slow core poets

New Writing

How I write:

By Kirsti Wishart

Poetry

three point four degrees

+3.4:

A poem by Dorothy Alexander