Queen of the sheep
By: edited by Valery Thornton and Hamish Whyte, with Maoilios Caimbeul (Gaelic advisor)
Contributors: Association for Scottish Literary Studies
Series: New writing Scotland -- 23; New writing Scotland -- 23.
Publisher: Association for Scottish Literary Studies
Published: 2005
Place of publication: Glasgow
Language: eng
Number of pages: 158
ISBN-13: 9780948877698
Subjects: Scottish literature; English literature; Scottish authors; Littérature écossaise; Littérature anglaise; Auteurs écossais; 18.05 English literature; Literatur
Description: Forty-eight contributors this year, slightly down on Issue 21, but with about the same number of pieces. Twenty-seven men, twenty-one women: the gender balance is improving. And a good mixture of well-known, up-and-coming and new names. As ever, it's all new writing and the usual wide range of topics and styles that never fails to amaze. We have country and city (source of much humour, gallus and gallows); weather (rain, of course) and seasons; Frank O'Hara in Gaelic and Jock Steinbeck in Canada; a few birds (eider, chicken, wren and Brent Millar's lovebirds); food (regularly on the NWS menu); sheep (not least Jim Carruth's title poem, the latest in his ongoing series of agriverse) and much more. Both of us have been involved with New Writing Scotland since it began and are sorry to be standing down as editors (Hamish this year, Val next year), but we will continue to submit poems and stories as potential contributors (anonymously, of course!). As editors we have thoroughly enjoyed the process - the discovery of exciting new talent is particularly rewarding. Someone once wrote that an editor is 'nothing more than a highly sensitised reader, the first link in what may be a chain of proliferating impacts.' We're not sure how highly sensitised we are, but we're happy to be that first link. The previous issue, Number 22, was a compendium of the first twenty issues (and well-received, we may say) and marked a watershed. Number 23 is the start of the next generation of New Writing Scotland and we hope it will keep going, reinvigorated -- by its publishers, by its editors, by wonderful new work by writers old and new and by you, its readers, the most important link in the chain.
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Table of contents: title: Hey, Eddie Rae  -- Tom Bryan; title: Queen of the sheep  -- Jim Carruth; title: The moleman's apprentice  -- Jim Carruth; title: Island rhythms  -- Jim Carruth; title: 264  -- Jim Carruth; title: On the flyleaf of Yves Klein  -- Ken Cockburn; title: On the flyleaf of Submariner #36  -- Ken Cockburn; title: Landfill  -- Neil Cocker; title: Douggie's thoughts  -- Michael Coutts; title: Urchin  -- James Cressey; title: The impossibility of pure water  -- Alexander Cuthbert; title: Sloes  -- Vicki Feaver; title: Green  -- Vicki Feaver; title: Remainders  -- Graham Fulton; title: This is your life  -- Graham Fulton; title: Ahm grinnin lik an eejit  -- Rab Swannock Fulton; title: Octet  -- Robin Fulton; title: The river Helmsdale  -- Robin Fulton; title: Geography lessons  -- Robin Fulton; title: Blue wings  -- Iain Galbraith; title: The miles  -- Mark Gallacher; title: A swarming  -- Paul Gorman; title: Frank O'Hara : Dan  -- Rody Gorman; title: Cuileag-shneachda  -- Rody Gorman; title: Direach gus a Radh  -- Rody Gorman; title: Gluasad  -- Rody Gorman; title: Shingle  -- Rody Gorman; title: Rain  -- Charlie Gracie; title: Brent Millar's lovebirds  -- Rosemary Hector; title: All that glass  -- Kate Hendry; title: Waiting for Neptune  -- Sonja Henrici; title: Falling  -- John Heraghty; title: Urban myths  -- Duncan Jones; title: Asunder  -- Beth Junor; title: Winter solstice  -- Beth Junor; title: Psalm 23  -- Kirsten Kearney; title: Bush fire  -- Lis Lee; title: Thief  -- Joanna Lilley; title: Disappointment  -- Joanna Lilley; title: Emigrant  -- Joanna Lilley; title: Jock Steinbeck on Rue Osgoode, Ottawa  -- Stuart Robert MacDonald; title: Aceto Balsamico di Modena  -- Stuart Robert MacDonald; title: Pondlife  -- Morag McDowell; title: The Camphill wren  -- James McGonigal; title: Preparations for Easter  -- James McGonigal; title: The half-awake soul  -- James McGonigal; title: Playing scarecrow  -- Mora Maclean; title: In the fitting room  -- Mora Maclean; title: F.FWD  -- Tony McLean; title: Dh'Eirich Snathag  -- Niall MacRath; title: Tobhta Ruairidh a' Ghlinne  -- Niall MacRath; title: Not an eider duck  -- Lyn Moir; title: Time for new stories  -- Michael Munro; title: Hats  -- Donald S. Murray; title: A' Choinneamh  -- Siusaidh NicRath; title: Ainmhidh  -- Siusaidh NicRath; title: Ewe-skull  -- Chris Powici; title: The visitors  -- Sarah Reynolds; title: New words  -- R. J. Ritchie; title: Auntie Bean undresses  -- Lydia Robb; title: Antisyzygy  -- Lydia Robb; title: At the dance  -- Kirsteen Scott; title: The plaited dog turd with the oak-leaf sail  -- Robert Swift; title: After Sappho  -- Judith Taylor; title: Chicken poem  -- Judith Taylor; title: Calyx for Georgia O'Keeffe  -- Sheila Templeton; title: Roasting vegetables for lunch  -- Sheila Templeton; title: The stockman's calendar  -- Tim Turnbull; title: Inside the kist  -- Fiona R. Walker; title: Glacier  -- Fiona R. Walker; title: Imagining 90  -- Fiona R. Walker; title: First line  -- Fiona Wilson; title: L'Oiseau mechanique  -- Kirsti Wishart; title: The ballad of the Starbucks Cafe -- Olga Wojtas.