The Dark Horse: interview with Nikki Milholin "Success in terms of a little poetry magazine is in: a) surviving; b) retaining literary quality; and c) creating some kind of a ripple in poetic sensibility."
Ian Hamilton in conversation "I thought on the basis of his texts that Salinger was a sort of gameplayer, and that I'd lure him out by sheer force of playfulness ... a massive miscalculation. He came out surrounded by lawyers."
Hugh McMillan: Aphrodite's Anorak "In part, the Scottish poetry scene, like any other, is a mix of backscratching and indifference to genuine talents who remain apart from the ruckus."
MacCaig / O'Rourke / Ferguson reviews "MacCaig wrote excellent rhyming verse, such as this volume's 'Return to Scalpay', but other examples here suffer from his earlier penchant for vapid philosophising."
On Kirkpatrick Dobie An obituary of this remarkable Dumfries poet, who died in 1999.
Interview with Julia Park Quirky and iconoclastic interview on Scottish and American poetry with the feisty Julia Park, for her Californian journal Redhills Review.