Gutter Issue 6 Contents

 

The gift from Cairo;

Disaster diary;

Autumn in Lahore;

Rizwan Akhtar

 

Air

Sandra Alland

 

Issy1 on Odradek2

David Betteridge

 

Visiting Winter: a Johannesburg Quintet

William Bonar

 

Lavender

Graham Brodie

 

The immaculate speech

Nick Brooks

 

Slow Down

Larry Butler

 

Extract from the novel This is Where I Am

Karen Campbell

 

The Songs of Kirilov

Niall Campbell

 

The Umbrella

Regi Claire

 

At Balmaha;

Viewing the Emperor;

Chimera;

AC Clarke

 

A Modern Melodrama in V x 53 words.

Penny Cole

 

Plangent;

Summer;

Julian Colton

Knife

Andrew McCallum Crawford

 

Apple

Christopher Crawford

 

El Café de l’Opera

Cat Dean

 

Watching Wild Parrots in San Francisco

Brian Docherty

 

The Judge

Roddy Dunlop

 

How long

Mark Edwards

 

Graviton love;

Bertolt Brecht in exile;

David Eyre

 

Four Kinds of Death

Andrew Ferguson

 

The Quadrangle

Michael Owen Fisher

 

Life of Brian;

The Optimist;

Graham Fulton

 

Henry Lord Darnley, syphilitic;

Hero;

After the battles of Camulodunum, London & Verulamium;

Andrew F Giles

 

Extract from novel Wider than the sky

Pippa Goldschmidt

 

Auld grulsh, efter ‘the poetry reading’

Alan Harkness

 

Behind the Carpathians

Svenja Herrmann

 

Critic’s Corner

Alexander Hutchison

 

Windows

Alison Irvine

 

Show Me A Man’s Teeth;

Sour Jewel;

Dignity;

Andy Jackson

 

Reality Check No. 1

Anita John

 

Scrogs on a bush

Bridget Khursheed

 

I was like, oh my God, I was literally

Gordon Legge

 

After the Dance

Carl MacDougall

 

Nothing

Lindsay Macgregor

 

A Scottish Cent(o)ury

Rob A Mackenzie

 

Extract from Buddha: A Novel

Kevin MacNeil

 

The F word;

The questions that go at first unanswered;

Aurora;

Kona Macphee

 

Post-Revolutionary Poets of the Future;

Edwin and Federico: A Fable;

Andrew McCallum

 

Holding A Cord

Patricia McCaw

 

Poem I;

Poem II;

Poem III;

Poem V;

Ross McGregor

 

Excavating The Heaney Machine;

This Is Not A Translation

Dearman McKay

 

A Walk Before Santa Soledad

Conan McMurtrie

 

No me importa la lluvia

Andrea McNicoll

 

Fuji Rock and Ever After

Iain Maloney

 

My Father And Fishing

Gordon Meade

 

Earthquake;

Dundee wedding;

Deborah Moffatt

 

Hum Int;

Look North (and North Again);

Tae a Lousy Piper;

Andrew Philip

 

Sometimes I forget;

The hour lost;

Stav Poleg

 

all the time billions

Chris Powici

 

 

Please

Wayne Price

 

Women’s Secret Language in China

Tessa Ransford

 

Extract from the novel Ramshackle

Elizabeth Reeder

 

neues Deutschland II

Fiona Rintoul

 

Are you sure you want to talk to me?

Dilys Rose

 

Knife?;

Wet Day;

Stewart Sanderson

 

Extract from the novel The Year of the Whale

Simon Sylvester

 

Returns

Judith Taylor

 

Digitalis Lust

Olufemi Terry

 

You can see light. What’s it like?

Nuala Watt

 

Sunstruck

Mary Wight

 

The Correct Recipe for Bleached Bones

Lara S Williams

 

Extracts from the novel Claustrophobia

Graeme Williamson

 

Tinderbox;

Last Night;

Jim C Wilson

Uptown New Year Transition;

Privilege of Morning;

Nicholas YB Wong

 

The Classification

Li San Xing