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Why we do it: editing a little magazine
"Unlike bombs, guns, and other signs of the end of discussion, they are perfectly useless."

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."
Read responses to this interview.

Ian Hamilton obituary
My brief overview of his life and career, from The Herald, New Year's Day, 2002.

A note on Wendy Cope
"As with Hardy's, her best work convinces less by its dazzling ideas than by its emotional resonance."

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."

A MacDiarmid borrowing
Unpublished letter for the TLS.

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.