Chapman Issue 38

Issue: 38 - On Derick Thomson

Christopher Whyte on Thomson as “reluctant symbolist”, Walter Hume investigates Scotland’s ‘Decaying Educational Mandarinate’. There’s fiction from Louis Barclay and Euan MacPherson; poetry – unpublished work by Ann Scott-Moncrieff whose tragic death aged 29 inspired a poem by Edwin Muir, also poetry from Canadian Fred Cogswell, German poetry from Andreas Drosdek, Gaelic poetry from Fearghas MacFionnlaigh and Maoilios Caimbeul, Jenni Calder, Naomi Mitchison and others and a long poem by Knut T S Campbell. 60 pp, 1984, ISBN-10: 0-906772-34-6 / ISBN-13: 978-0-906772-34-8 £4.00