Gutter 04 has just hit the streets and it's a great edition, with a fascinating section on writing inside the former GDR that features extracts, and some facsimiles, from the Samizdat, underground literary magazines that were hand-produced in East Germany in the 70s and 80s.
There's writing from virtually everyone I was with at the From Glasgow to Saturn Reading Party, a delicious sideswipe at middle-class mothering from Vivien Jones and new writing from lots of big names.
And two poems from me, On Looking and Showa, Oppenheimer. The latter is a concrete poem, so here's a peek. Guess what it's about.
Gutter is on sale in Scottish bookshops in big Scottish cities; alternatively, you can get it by post from here: http://www.guttermag.co.uk/
Next submission deadline 30th April for inclusion in Gutter 05. But you do have to be Scottish, living in Scotland or wearing a kilt at the time of writing. Och, all the details are at the website.
From national to local, and here's a lovely little origami magazine that appears in Dumfries, Fankle. Issue 5 was a NOT the Rabbie Burns edition, so my long poem A letter from Mr. Daniel Stuart of The Morning Post to Mr Robert Burns made it in, beautifully rendered by Hugh Bryden who designs the whole magazine.
The Fankle lives here: http://thefankle.net/ and if you go to the website there's a rather soothing video of how the magazine unfolds.
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