Beaches, a sonnet by Linda Jackson: Poems and Stories of Love: Glasgow Writers
The Beaches (Linda Jackson) Waving glass on the surface of eyes Myopia does add qualities Like immediacy, no perspective. The Bay of Findhorn in winter light curves up onto my lens and the near sky. There is only a vague division An Impressionist suggestion of separation Low sheen blues and high […]
Sunday, February 16, 2014 | Filed under: Love Poems, Stories and Tales from Glasgow writers, stories and poems
What is Age? by Susan Muir: Love is in the air – Poetry and Stories of Love by Glasgow Writers
What is Age? (Susan Muir) To be young and carefree is such sweet joy Life will go on forever or so it seems It is often the time for girl meets boy The fulfilling of many of our dreams Career is now the most important thing To climb the ladder and be seen […]
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Scar Tissue by Peter Russell: Love is in the air, Poetry and Stories of Love by Glasgow Writers.
Scar Tissue (Peter Russell) The heart’s first infection is the deepest And its memory when young is blindest When kisses course our bloodstream the sweetest And lovers are the wildest, and the kindest. Youth gives strength, not active immunity, We’ve had no contact as first love’s vaccine; Young hearts sweat fevers with impunity, And […]
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Stories of Love and Love Poems: No Dust Settles by Paul McCafferty
No Dust Settles by Paul McCafferty No dust settles on that place.The old place,the new one.Though trees have stretched and grass has grown around flowers openedto the sun. No other feet have walked there.Often I hear the song of wee birds that tweetabout our ancient home.I have seen so many cities come and go. Sudden […]
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Friday, February 14, 2014 | Filed under: Love Poems, Stories and Tales from Glasgow writers, Poetry, stories and poems
Love Stories, Poems and Stories of Spring. Paul McCafferty, Glasgow Poet
Unrequitable by Paul McCafferty So many things to say about stars. So many things to say about what to say about stars. So many things to say about the colour of the night. So many things to say about saying things about the colour of the night. So many things to be said about the […]
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Monday, February 10, 2014 | Filed under: Love Poems, Stories and Tales from Glasgow writers
Love Stories and Stories of Spring by Glasgow Writers- A Promise of Love, Mary Irvine
A Promise of Love by Mary Irvine The train was late so I had time to appraise my fellow travellers. Mostly unremarkable, I thought, as my gaze surreptitiously moved over them. But then my gaze swept back to a figure standing slightly to the side of where I was sitting His back was towards me. […]
Tuesday, February 4, 2014 | Filed under: Love Poems, Stories and Tales from Glasgow writers
Love is in the Air: Stories of Love and Spring: Springtime on Spetses, Mary Irvine
Springtime on Spetses by Mary Irvine In Spring the winter clothes are packed away and the summer ones unpacked, smelling of naphlia. The island is awash with the colours of wild flowers – sedges, daisies, profusions of margaritas, cyclamen, all the blossoms of the various fruit trees – almond, apple, orange, lemon, quince, fig, olive. […]
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Love Stories and Poems by Glasgow Writers: Sound of the Wind by Paul McCafferty
Sound On The WindFor Claudia Accosta Fernanda Beccera by Paul McCafferty Sound carries on the wind.Funny thing. It gets tane upin the sail of breeze or brutal gale.The mumble of a Love you.The shout of a Fuck off.The drunken echoesof slow 3:am wanderersalways lookin for ‘Malky’.On some still afternoonsI’ve found ma self standinwi a fresh […]
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Glasgow writer and poet: John McGarrigle (died in the Clutha Disaster, 29th November, 2013)
On 29th November, 2013, ten people lost their lives when a helicopter crashed into the roof of The Clutha Vaults, Stockwell Street, Glasgow. Among them was writer and poet, John McGarrigle, aged 59. (The other victims were Pilot David Traill, 51; Constables Tony Collins, 43 and Kirsty Nelis, 36; and customers Mark O’Prey, 44; Gary […]
A Celebration by Allan Wilson
(an extract from Wasted in Love) I’m sitting with Jack having a few beers when he eventually gets round to asking. He says, “Tony will you…will you be my best man?” He says it like a proposal. It’s after that the two of us really get to drinking. The girls are out celebrating and me […]
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Thursday, November 28, 2013 | Filed under: Love Poems, Stories and Tales from Glasgow writers
Glasgow Writers: Allan Wilson
Allan Wilson is a busy and talented Glasgow writer; always working on short stories, novels and plays. His short story collection Wasted in Love raised quite a stir when it was published by Cargo in 2012, including being shortlisted for the Scottish Book of the Year in 2012. Apart from his own enthusiasm for writing, […]
Glasgow Writers: Elaine Reid
Elaine Reid is a Glaswegian writer and graduate of Glasgow University’s Creative Writing MFA programme. She is a previous winner of Strathclyde University’s prestigious Keith Wright Literary Prize and has been published in From Glasgow to Saturn, Valve Journal and Gutter Magazine. Elaine also writes monologues and has performed at Edinburgh International Book Festival. Currently […]
A Special Report by Brian Hamill
A wee short piece written in Scots, September, 2013 Glasgow Writer: Brian Hamill Sumdy in the high flats threw a big telly oot the windae durin the night. It had flew through the air an landed right ootside the close door. By the time ah goat ready an went oer there wiz awready a crowd […]
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Thursday, September 5, 2013 | Filed under: Love Poems, Stories and Tales from Glasgow writers
Glasgow Writers: John Hamilton May
Love in the Past Participle Edinburgh Festival Fringe Writer and Director John Hamilton May, originally from North Yorkshire, is a Glasgow-based writer and director. He has just completed studying his M.A. in Theatre Studies at the University of Glasgow and, aged only 22, already he’s making quite a mark in the world of theatre. […]
Glasgow Writers
There is an impressive and vibrant literary scene in Glasgow with book launches, writers’ workshops, spoken word events and a variety other other bookish activities taking place every night of the week. I highlight these events on the site in my What’s On in Glasgow Books, Talks and Poetry Events, however, given the abundance of […]
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Friday, April 12, 2013 | Filed under: Books, Talks, Poetry and Creative Writing Events, writers
Glasgow Writers: Leela Soma
Sadly Leela passed away in December, 2022. She will be very sadly missed and fondly remembered remembered. Leela’s Obituary by John A. Macinnes, 7 January, 2023 The Kavya Prize ,founded by Leela Soma, aims to celebrate published work and new writing by Scotland’s ethnically diverse communities. First prize will be announced in May, 2022. Murder […]
Glasgow Writers: Paul McCafferty
I first came across Paul McCafferty on Glasgow University’s MLitt Creative Writing Course, where we were both students. From the outset I was hooked on his poetry. Paul is a naturally gifted writer and his love of language and creative ability shine through in his writing, which flows with fine cadence and draws the reader […]
Glasgow Writers: Denise Mina
Conviction by Denise Mina – May, 2019 Conviction is engrossing, unusual and funny. Watch out for Denise Mina at: Bloody Scotland Saturday 21st September, 2019 from 3:15 pm – 4:15 pm, Albert Halls. Relaunch of Oxfam Bookshop Byres Road, 21 August, 2015. Launch new book: Blood, Salt, Water – 1 August, 2015 Back in March, 2013 I […]
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Friday, April 5, 2013 | Filed under: Books, Talks, Poetry and Creative Writing Events, writers, Writing
Glasgow Writers: Dave Anderson
Opening Time by Dave Anderson – A Play, A Pie and A Pint, OranMor 1 November – 6 November, 2021. When I first wrote about Dave Anderson on my website, back in the early 2000’s, I pointed to his many accomplishments including, ‘singer, storyteller, musician, songwriter, musical director’ and, of course, accomplished actor. Apart from […]
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Thursday, March 21, 2013 | Filed under: People: Local Glasgow West End Characters, writers, Writing
Glasgow Writers: Maggie Graham
I first met Maggie Graham back in 2000 when she had just returned from a month’s writing in Grez-sur-Loing. This trip was part of her prize for winning the Robert Louis Stevenson award for her first novel Sitting Among the Eskimos. The book was also shortlisted for the Saltire Prize. More success was to follow […]
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Tuesday, March 19, 2013 | Filed under: People: Local Glasgow West End Characters, writers, Writing
Glasgow Writers: David MacLennan
(Sadly David MacLennan died on 13th June, 2014. Neither he nor his remarkable achievements will be forgotten. David MacLennan Obituary, The Guardian ) David McLennan Award 2022 – A Play, A Pie and A Pint David MacLennan, Portrait Unveiling, OranMor, 21 February, 2016 One of the traits I admire in writers is a tendency to […]
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Monday, March 18, 2013 | Filed under: People: Local Glasgow West End Characters, writers, Writing
Poetry by Mr Henry Bell
Henry Bell is 52. He lives in Glasgow’s East End and has been writing poetry for a few years. You can read some of his work here: Sky light The mother earths my home Cos iv no where else to go Shut down the hostels Now iv no where to go Got no money […]
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Wednesday, January 27, 2010 | Filed under: Poetry, stories and poems
