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Climate | Writing | Action | Scotland

A collection of occasional works that fall outside our usual zine windows and constraints, including longer essays, invited pieces and timely poems.

‘Eden’ as a slice of the Cairngorms National Park with words taken from eavesdropping on a crazy media deluge delivered by smartphone.

Gill Russell

a gatherin o Palestinian toponyms
newfangled intae th Scots leid
wi Sassenach translations

Alec Finlay

Strange to think
of a subtidal
meadow where
waves gather

Roshni Gallagher

When I was tree I believed
we’d stand forever, sighing
consorts of wind and rain
– till the Felling came,

Kathleen Jamie

The Splendid Poison Frog,
Spix’s Macaw,
the Bramble Cay Melomy,
the Moorean Tree Snail,

Hugh McMillan