Magazine Archive

Issue: 12 - Scottish Education

R F MacKenzie, Donald Campbell. 0-906772-28-1 – £2.60

Issue: 14 - 7:84 Theatre Examined

East European poetry, Trakl, Krolow. 0-950269-13-1 – £2.60

Issue: 35-6 - The State of Scotland:

A Predicament for the Scottish Writer – a landmark cultural/political debate about Scottish writers and Scottish identity. Alasdair Gray, John Herdman, aonghas macneacail, Iain Crichton Smith, Tessa Ransford and many others. 0-906772-24-9 – £5.60

Issue: 38 - Derick Thomson

Christopher Whyte on Thomson; Scottish Education; Anne Scott-Moncrieff, Naomi Mitchison. 0-906772-34-6 – £2.60

Issue: 39 - George Campbell Hay

Garioch & Burgess translate Belli; D M Black, Derek Bowman, Jessie Kesson, Eona Macnicol. 0-906772-35-4 – £5.60

Issue: 40 - George Fraser

George Campbell Hay; Jenny Robertson, Stephen Mulrine, Hamish Brown, Norman MacCaig, Fred Urquhart, Innis Macbeath – Tales of Tachair. 0-906772-36-2 – £5.60

Issue: 43-4 - Scottish Theatre Today:

The only comprehensive study: play-writing, community, rep. drama etc; Robert McLellan, Liz Lochhead, Tom Leonard; Donald Campbell, Jo Farrell, Joyce McMillan, Hector MacMillan, John Crawford and Cordelia Oliver. 0-906772-06-0 – £6.60

Issue: 46 - William Montgomerie:

Poetry and fiction by Montgomerie, essay by Edwin Morgan; Theatre debate continued; Tom Pow, Brian McCabe, Derick Thomson; Scottish fiction 1880-1914. 0-906772-11-7 – £4.60

Issue: 47-48 - Tom Scott/Ann Scott-Moncrieff

Major reassessment of Tom Scott; Ann Scott-Moncrieff – a great talent discovered. Poetry and fiction; theatre debate continues. 0-906772-08-7 – £6.60

Issue: 49 - Edwin Muir

Unpublished Muir essay, articles (Fred Urquhart, Morley Jamieson, James D Young); theatre – Tom McGrath, AdCAS Scottish National Theatre conference; Kathleen Raine, Sheena Blackhall, Angus Calder. 0-906772-09-5 – £4.60

Issue: 52 - J F Hendry

, poet, novelist Tribute to J F Hendry; Scottish film, Valerie Thornton; theatre, Donald Campbell; The Cuillin pt 2; Janice Galloway, R Buchanan Smith. 0-906772-14-1 – £4.60

Issue: 54 - Iain Crichton Smith

Poetry & fiction from ICS, Jim C Wilson, Ellie McDonald, Tom Bryan; The Cuillin pt 3; Scottish Women's Writing; Traditional Music in Schools. 0-906772-16-8 – £4.60

Issue: 55-56 - Modern Soviet Literature

Translations of Aygi, Iskander and others by Morgan, France & Mulrine; Russian history & politics; feature on James Bridie; Alastair Cameron, Allen Wright, drawings by Sydney Goodsir Smith; The Scottish Constitutional Convention; The Cuillin pt 4. 0-906772-18-4 – £6.60

Issue: 58 - Tribute to Valda Grieve

Poems by Valda Grieve; tributes by W R Aitken & Ronald Stevenson; John Herdman, Margaret Elphinstone, Frank Kuppner, William Neill; William Anderson and Australian Universities by Gavin Ardley. 0-906772-20-6 – £4.60

Issue: 59 - Kenneth White:

Poetry and fiction by White; criticism by Tony McManus and Graham D Martin; Una Flett, Derick Thomson and a tribute to the National Library of Scotland. 0-906772-21-4 – £4.60

Issue: 61-2 - Writing Together:

New writing from Sudan, Denmark, Vietnam, New Zealand, Czechoslovakia and more; Hayden Murphy on Irish poetry, Charles Stevens on Robin Williamson; James Berry, John Agard, Miroslav Holub, Liz Lochhead and Eunice de Souza. 0-906772-25-7 – £6.75

Issue: 64 - Edwin Morgan:

A celebration of Edwin Morgan’s eclecticism with criticism by Robert Crawford, Roderick Watson, Angus Calder, Ken Morrice, Christine McNeill, Mary McCabe and others. 0-906772-38-9 – £4.60

Issue: 65 - Satirical Scotland

Innis Macbeath, Iain Crichton Smith, Matthew Fitt’s now legendary ‘Kate O’Shanter’s Tale’, James B Caird; unpublished story by George Friel; Kate Calder on Norman Cameron; Alastair Mackie, Onagh Warke, Angus Peter Campbell, Paula Fitzpatrick. 0-906772-39-7 – £4.60

Issue: 66 - The Gaidhealtachd & Sorley MacLean:

Interview with Sorley MacLean; political satire by Innis Macbeath, Colin Nicholson, new poetry from MacCaig, Koert Linde, Mary Edward and the Fifth Estate Manifesto. 0-906772-40-0 – £5.00

Issue: 67 - Neil Gunn – Centennial Reflections:

Essays by Richard Price, Margery McCulloch, Neil MacCormick, Diarmid Gunn and Bernard Crick. Also works by Jane Harris, Harvey Holton and Anne Frater. 0-906772-42-7 – £5.00

Issue: 68 - The Translator’s Art: Scots Abroad:

Translations from Belli, Cavafy, Radnoti, Das; Christopher Harvie on the ’92 election; 68: The Translator’s Art: Scots Abroad: Translations from Belli, Cavafy, Radnoti, Das; Christopher Harvie on the ’92 election; 0-906772-47-8 – £5.00

Issue: 69-70 - MacDiarmid Centenary Issue:

Critical essays, poetry, fiction, reminiscence, polemic, and a quiz! A new generation responds to Scotland’s radical and controversial spirit of MacDiarmid. 0-906772-50-8 – £7.50

Issue: 71 - Peerie Willa Muir:

Long overshadowed by her husband Edwin, new light is thrown on Willa Muir as author, poet, translator and feminist. Poetry by Robin Jenkins, John Dixon, Stuart Paterson and fiction by William J Rae and Ruth Thomas. 0-906772-53-2 – £5.00

Issue: 72 - Ivory Towers Under Siege:

Essays on language, academics and poetry; Robbie Robertson on The Scots Kist, Alex Hamilton; Shuntaro Tanekawa, Maureen Sangster and aonghas macneacail. 0-906772-54-0 – £5.00

Issue: 73 - Iain Crichton Smith:

Aimed at SCE Higher English syllabus. Includes new fiction and poetry by ICS, interview with Bill Duncan, critical analysis of the Higher poems by Colin Nicholson and more. 0-906772-58-3 – £5.00

Issue: 74-5 - The Women’s Forum:

A celebration of women in Scottish literature; critical analysis, outstanding fiction and poetry, following from our ground breaking no. 27-8: Woven by Women. 0-906772-51-6 – £7.50

Issue: 76 - The Woman’s Forum:

Women in Arts in Scotland, in Traditional Music, in Musical History, Engender; Men’s and Women’s Writers’ Groups; work by Valerie Gillies, Catriona NicGumaraid, Jenni Daiches. 0-906772-59-1 – £5.00

Issue: 77 - The Arts Under a Scottish Democracy:

Papers from AdCAS 1993 arts conference, Duncan MacMillan, Sheena Wellington, Lorne Boswell: The Women’s Forum cont.: Scottish women writing for children, and the Stone of Destiny. 0-906772-60-5 – £5.00

Issue: 78-9 - Ian Hamilton Finlay issue:

Finlay’s life and work celebrated with work from Angus Calder, David Black, Tessa Ransford and Ivor Cutler, along with a unique tour around IHF’s Stoneypath garden. Alec Finlay edits. 0-906772-61-3 – out of print (photocopy available, £8.00)

Issue: 80 - Jessie Kesson Remembered:

It was upon a Lammas Nicht explores attitudes towards sexuality. Christopher Whyte on sexuality in Scottish literature and new works from Gordon Meade, Sheena Blackhall and Gavin Stewart. Also included is a short story, ‘After the First Hard Rain’ by Paul Anderson, which has since been developed into a major novel (1300 pages) – Hunger’s Brides. 0-906772-66-4 – £5.00

Issue: 81 - Elspeth Davie & the Gap:

With journal extracts, short stories and essays by and on her, an in-depth look at the life and work of Elspeth Davie. New writing by Alasdair Gray and Ann Lingard. 0-906772-67-2 – £5.00

Issue: 82 - Hamish Henderson’s Long March:

letters by Hamish Henderson (inc to MacDiarmid) and articles, essays on Henderson; Angus Calder, Alec Finlay, Kathleen Raine. 0-906772-68-0 – £5.00

Issue: 83 - Trocchi & MacDiarmid:

Andrew M.Scott on MacDiarmid’s demonisation of Trocchi, poetry and fiction by Ian Stephen, Jackie Kay and David Black. 0-906772-69-9 – £5.00

Issue: 84 - George Mackay Brown: in Memoriam:

Stories and poems to GMB. Interviews, appreciations, anecdotes and memories from Stewart Conn, Gerry Cambridge and Margaret Tait. Plus new fiction and poetry, reviews of books and theatre. 0-906772-76-1 – £5.00

Issue: 85 - Stoned Alive!:

Reflections on the controversial Stone of Destiny by aonghas macneacail and John Ritchie; fiction and poetry by Brent Hodgson, Yvonne Claire and Bernadette Creechan. 0-906772-81-8 – £5.00

Issue: 86 - Voices of the North:

features northern Scottish writers: George Gunn, Sheena Blackhall and an article on Scots language by Nigel Grant. 0-906772-82-6 – £5.00

Issue: 87 - The State of British Poetry:

American poet Jon Corelis’s essay examining British poetry offers up controversy and new angles. 0-906772-83-4 – £5.00

Issue: 88 - Window on Catalonia:

Poetry and fiction from Catalonia, essays on Catalan language and culture. Translated and edited by Christopher Whyte. 0-906772-84-2 – £5.00

Issue: 89-90 - Meeting Ronald Stevenson:

Friends and contemporaries speak about the Scottish composer whose influence reaches far past music. Work from the RLS award winners Angus Dunn and Dilys Rose 0-906772-85-0 – £8.00

Issue: 91 - The Big British Poetry Debate:

Poets respond to Corelis’s article in issue 87. Their views on British poet are witty, controversial but eye-opening; Iain Crichton Smith, Janet Paisley and others. New work by Bill Duncan, Ian Grant and George Wyllie. 0-906772-87-7 – £5.00

Issue: 92 - ‘Flames of History’:

Chapman’s second Irish poetry anthology inc Brendan Kennelly, Eithne Strong, Eavan Boland and Seamus Heaney. New fiction by Bernard MacLaverty. Hayden Murphy edits. 0-906772-88-5 – £5.00

Issue: 93 - Scotland and Europe

Dutch artist Koert Linde and Scot Magi Gibson delve into the world of mythology through spell-binding poetry. Patricía Beltrán reveals the origins of World Book Day. Sabine Schmidt looks at Thomas Mann’s influence on George Mackay Brown.0-906772-89-3 – £5.00

Issue: 94 - Poetry at War: A New Scotland Speaks:

Reviewing three collections from the Balkans, Angus Calder examines whether poetry can speak against genocide. Tom Nairn strangles the New Ministry and the media with his look back at Devolution. 0-906772-90-7 – £5.00

Issue: 95 - Scotland into the World:

Edwin Morgan’s 1999 Post Office Lecture, highlights forgotten talents of Helen Little, Cunningham Graham and others. Controversial playwright George Byatt is remembered and David Hastie discusses Michel Tremblay’s Quebequois plays. And a post-post modernist philosophical analysis of ‘THE THREE CRAWS’! 0-906772-91-3 – £5.00

Issue: 96 - George Bruce: Poet 2000:

a celebration of George Bruce now aged 91. George Gunn measures his achievement over the years. Colin Dunbar is Chapman’s first featured artist. There is also a commemorative appreciation of the much neglected poet T S Law. 0-906772-94-X – £5.00

Issue: 97 - Alasdair Gray: A Unique Scottish Magus:

the wit and wisdom of Gray and his Book of Prefaces. RLS Award winners Chris Dolan and Maggie Graham discuss experiences in France and we get a taste of their work.0-906772-97-4 – £5.95

Issue: 98 - Remembering Donald Dewar:

friends and colleagues look back at the former First Minister. Robert Calder brings back fond memories of the unique Jessie Kesson, Colin Mackay shows an unknown side of the Edinburgh Festival. 1-9030700-00-0 – £5.95

Issue: 99 - Multiculturalism Rules OK

discovers parallels between Scotland and Appalachia in language, culture and politics; a re-evaluation of Bengali poet Tagore, uncovering literary snobbery devaluing his translations and questioning ‘non-metropolitan English’; new work by Ron Butlin, Christine de Luca, Daniel Weissbort pays poetic tribute to Ted Hughes and Aimee Chalmers examines childhood discovery of sex through an Aristotelian lense! Also Gordon Legge, latest RLS Fellow – and much else! 1-903700-04 3 – £5.95

Issue: 100/1 - Chapman Centenary, Part 1:

A Party Between Two Covers: A celebration of Chapman and its many contributors from more than 30 years. Contributors include Alasdair Gray, Edwin Morgan, Janet Paisley, Sheena Blackhall, Trevor Royle, Magi Gibson, Christopher Whyte, Kathleen Jamie, Dilys Rose, Tom Pow, Brian McCabe, George Gunn etc. Angus Calder on Culture and the End of Britain. Six unique essays discussing their creative inspiration by Norman MacCaig, Iain Crichton Smith, Tom Scott, George Mackay Brown, Kathleen Raine and Sorley MacLean. Featured artist Jack Vettriano. 1-903700-05-1 – £13.00

Issue: 102/3 - Chapman Centenary, Part 2:

The Party Continues!: More thrills, spills and surprises with Gerry Cambridge, Bill Duncan, Matthew Fitt, Liz Lochhead and many other late-comers to the party. Also including previously unpublishing material by George Mackay Brown and an appreciation of the under-appreciated William Neill. Featuring Chapman’s first ever colour feature with Artist of the Issue John Bellany – a sight to behold! 1-903700-06-X – £13.00

Issue: 104 - Chapman Centenary, Part 3:

Towards the Future! finishes our centenary celebrations with a bang, including Hugh MacDiarmid’s unpublished work, recently unearthed by John Manson. The poems and prose give new insights disturbingly relevant to our times. A stimulating essay by Italian Franco Loi contrasts the poet and the mystic. There’s Iain Crichton Smith’s Gaelic fiction. other old friends – Meg Bateman, Jenni Daiches, aonghas macneacail, Lydia Robb and exciting new voices like Alastair Sim, Andrew Philip and Martin Bates. MacDiarmid’s collaborator, William Johnstone, under-rated modernist, is featured artist. 1-903700-08-6 – £5.95

Issue: 105 - On With the Future!

kicks off Chapman’s second century, with an intoxicating mix of short stories, poems, reviews and mischief. Richard Burns examines how poetry fares in the 21st century while William Oxley rejoices in W S Graham and George Barker’s survival of our commercialised and academicised literary world. Michael Lister reviews David Daiches’ astonishing literary output over his long career – and his books on whisky! Joyce Gunn-Cairns is featured artist, with her insightful, sometimes disturbing work, while Shona Dougall provides the captivating cover image. Original work from Robert Louis Stevenson Award winners Ian Brotherhood and Jules Horne, and ever-present new talent such as Tracey Rosenberg, Rafiq Mahmood and others all make for a hell of a start. Bring on the next century! 1-903700-10-8 – £6.35.

Issue: 106 - Testaments Unrequited

A strange title for an issue, inspired by Alastair Reid's essay 'Poetry and Life' and especially Featured Artist Ian Hughes's moving and thought-provoking paintings and portraits on biblical themes, which asks us all to examine the trust we place in many accepted precepts and 'faiths'. Who is saint, who sinner, and in whom is genuine humanity truly vested? We publish our first ever sermon, by Kenneth Boyd, moved by Hughes's portraits of Edinburgh down-and-outs, to use these as his Sunday Text. We also remember Gael Turnbull who died last year, appreciating his wide experience and understanding. Gael's activities ranged from busking aged 75 in Edinburgh High Street during the Festival, to morris dancing, arcane philosphical debates – and writing poems. And as ever, there’s first-rate writing from writers never heard of before, and return to Magi Gibson, with an unforgettable new long poem. 1-903700-11-6 – £6.35

Issue: 107 - Unacknowledged Legislators

The title is taken from Edwin Morgan's challenging poem, welcoming the formation of the Scottish Parliament Cross Party Group for Literature, and a hard-hitting Manifesto by Carl MacDougall also appears. Rab Wilson translates Horace's Satires into a vivid, lively Scots. Recent winners of the Robert Louis Stevenson Award, Donal McLaughlin, Gavin Bowd and Louise Welsh also appear, with new fiction and poetry written at Grez-sur-Loing in France or inspired by their stay there. As ever, there are new writers: New Zealander Lee Kofman, who reflects on writing in a foreign language, and Eabhan Ní Shuileabháin from Ireland. Old friends re-appear, including Alexis Lykiard and Rody Gorman. Featured artist is the remarkable Sheila Mullen, whose painterly interpretations of Scottish folk tales and ballads are stunning!

Issue: 108 - Crime Scenes Revisited

Ian Rankin is our cover boy in an issue walking the dark side of life, with a slice of his new novel, Naming of the Dead (world exclusive!) plus a revealing in-depth interview with Edmund O’Connor are main attractions. O’Connor also writes a revealing profile, ‘Mr Iain and Mr Iain (M) Banks’, and a critical exploration of Tartan Noir, focussing on William McIlvanney, Val McDermid, Manda Scott, Denise Mina.

Issue: 109 - In Praise of the Lyric Muse

Stewart Conn at 70 – new poems,
Conn on Muriel Spark, appreciations by Colin Nicholson …
Meg Bateman interviewed on Gaelic, new poems
David Daiches – the Poet
New work from Frances Campbell, Charlie Gracie,
Norman Kreitman, Richard Price, Tessa Ransford
Featured Artist: Anda Paterson