All those that can be found, available for 50p each
(minimum two) plus postage, except Cutty Sark which is still £2.
from Poetry Scotland, 91-93 Main Street,
Callander, FK17 8BQ
PS Oct 06 Supernumerary Issue (ie this one has no
number and was not sent to subscribers, though it is
still available at £1). Sir Walter Scott: The Lady of
the Lake, Canto One. First published 1810. Local poem,
primarily for selling to tourists in Callander.
54 (blue) Stanza snaps: poems from StAnza 2008.
Translations from French poets by Morelle Smith.
Readers' favourite: Eurydice Rising: long poem by Elizabeth Rimmer.
53 (red) Save Callander East End Post Office.
We failed to save our home post office, but we did our best,
and poets wrote in from all over the country - we are sorry
the consultation exercise was a waste of people's time.
Readers' favourite: David Purdie's Tam O'Shanter variations.
52 (teak on cream) Special Dedicated Issue: the long poem
The Cutting Down of Cutty Sark, by Robert Alan Jamieson.
We claim this is the longest poem ever to be published in a magazine.
A series of ballads describing the "hell voyage" of the Cutty Sark,
it is also one of the best. 16 pages, the longest single PS. £2.
51 (green on green) Alfresco issue. Les Murray, and translations of
Les Murray's the Meaning of Existence into French (Alain Suied) and Gaelic (Rody Gorman).
50 (blue on blue) Leth-cheud. Simultaneously published on-line at the
Poetry Society's on-line magazines project.
Preference was given to long-term Poetry Scotland contributors.
PS47 Doors and Mirages: Poems by Mike Mitchell.
Dedicated issue
PS46 Web Issue. Poems and web hints for beginners.
Part 2 of Skald by Ian Crockatt. & poems by Beth Junor,
Fred Beake, Maureen Weldon. Stuart B Campbell &
others.
PS45 (Blue paper) The English Diaspora in Scotland:
Special feature. This became a twelve page issue as
word spread. Officially out of print, though there are
one or two spares for anyone researching this subject.
PS44 (Blue paper) Mare Marginis: journeys and poems by
Lesley Harrison. Dedicated Issue.
PS43 (Blue paper - the beginning of the blue period)
The Way theWind Blows. Some longer poems, including
Skald part one(Ian Crockatt), Run (Kevin Murphy), Plant
Labels (Gerry Loose), A Chrsitmas Carol (Deborah
Tyler-Bennett)
PS42 (blue) Poems from theTaw and Torridge Estuaries
by James Bell: Dedicated Issue
PS 41 (blue) "No Botherin Naebdy": Tom Pow, Rachel Bentham,
Poetry in Practice Renga, and others
PS 40 (red). The
Magazine that Doesn't Have to Please the Bishop. Poems by
Les Murray, Alan Suied, Chrys Salt, Beverley A'Court, Ian Blake (Sepia
Tones), Chris Jones, etc.
PS 39 (bronze)
Dedicated Issue: nick-e melville, Humour and reality in
Dalkeith Scots. Has been praised by many correspondents and moaned about by
one.
PS 38 The Scottish
International Open Poetry Competition issue, to
commemorate the competition started by Hugh MacDiarmid and Henry Mair, in
Irvine. one of the longest running and most successful competitions,It
closed this year due to Henry Mair's and Sam Gilliland's retirement.
PS37(blue) Post-Tapsalteerie
Issue. Margaret Gillies Brown, Kenneth Steven,
Jim Bennett, Sheena Blackhall's tsunami poem, Douglas Lipton's Parliament
poem ("The Quene wis braw in cramasie").
PS 36 Greek Air
Issue. Brian Johnston (The Greek Air). Tom Leonard, George
Gunn, Pauline Prior-Pitt, etc.
PS 35 Purple Snowy
Fuji issue. Poems by Steve Sneyd, John Hegley, email
renku, Deborah Tyler-Bennett, Hamish Brown and others
PS 34 Light Green Wild Wings. Pam Russell dedicated issue
PS 33 Light Blue
Rody Gorman dedicated issue: new poems and subversions
PS 32 Red Old Red Sandstone issue, many Northwords authors and others
PS 31 Dark Red,
Pob Hwyl issue. Welsh themed issue, David Annwn, Idris
Caffrey, Merryn Williams, Ruth Bidgood an a fair puckle o ithers.
PS 30 Blue Landmarks
and Laureates. Introducing the Poetry Scotland
Laureates. Poems by Margaret Gillies Brown, Les Murray, Rob McIllechiar, Tom
Bryan etc.
PS 29 Dark Red:
Caves of Gold: Long Poem Digest issue. Passages from 14
newly written long poems.
PS 28 Light Red:
Summer Dance. Includes Renku Simmering Heat (Renkujin
Palace) and Renga (Jim C Wilson's group).
PS 27 Dark Blue:
Moonlight Issue, marking our final move from Grindles,
Edinburgh to be based entirely in Callander. Poems by Dilys Rose, George
Gunn, Christopher Rush and others.
PS 26 Light Blue:
A Dedicated Issue entirely comprising new poems by Robin
Fulton. Poems from Norway, Denmark and Germany, Sutherland and Edinburgh,
York and Suffolk, the North Sea and the Skagerrak.
PS 25 Red: Free
Tall Trees Issue. Trees were despatched as follows. Tom
Bryan: Red Oak. Alison Prince: Monkey Puzzle. R J Ritchie: Red Horse
Chestnut. Ann Greer: Deodar Cedar. Magi McGlynn: Apple. Danakosa Buddhist
Retreat, Balquhidder: another Cedar. The Eucalyptus was planted at
Callander. Poems by Steve Sneyd (Dead Poets Society), Norman Lothian (poem
about Hemingway) etc.
PS24 Green Christmas
Stocking Issue. Accompanied PS23
Readers favourite: Steve Rudd, "Santa is a Pedo"
PS23 Brown Bonfire
Issue contributors include Martin Bates, Mercedes
Clarasó, William Oxley
PS22 Purple. Bingo
Issue. Accompanied PS21. contributors include Carol
Rumens
PS21 Red. Frightfully
Posh Issue. A favourite title.
Gaelic: Angus Peter Campbell, Meg Bateman. contributors include Les Murray
PS20 Blue Brig
Issue. Engineering; WHC Bridge Haiku group;
contributors include David Annwn (Welsh), Hamish Brown
Readers favourite: Robert Davidson
PS19 Red Left Bank
Several longer poems.
Geoff Sawers' The Postcard. Keith Armstrong, Lockerbie.
PS18 Purple Issue
Eighteen. The Paul McCartney issue.
other contributors include Frank Kuppner, Aonghas MacNeacail, Ron Butlin.
PS17 Green Edinburgh
International Book Festival Free Supplement. Marylin
Hacker, Matthew Sweeney, Kenneth White, Adrian Mitchell & others. Three
pages for younger readers. Accompanied PS16.
PS16 Blue Glasgow Tram Issue contributors include Alan Suied, Andrew Greig
PS15 Brick-red
Issue Fifteen. contributors include Fred Beake >from<
Cyclops, Stewart Conn, Ian Revie: Ossian's fir
PS14 Green [Yellow-hammer]
Sheena Blackhall's Scots poem Yalla-Yitie. Also
known as the Columba issue - Robert Davidson's 6 page poem.
PS13 Dark Blue
Broader Issue. Poems with long lines.
Readers' favourite: Kuppner's First Lines of Leo Hennigsdorfer part One.
PS12 Dark purple.
Rathlin Issue. 'Not a literary magazine.'
Longer poems by R.Livermore, Ian Blake and Sebastian Barker
contributors
include Les Murray, Hayden Murphy, Maureen Sangster, Richard
Price
PS11 Red Callander
Issue. contributors include Alan Jackson & W.N. Herbert
Readers favourite: Alan Jackson, The Three.
PS10 Brown. Spring,
including Gaelic factsheet and index to issues 1-10.
Readers favourite: Maireen Weldon.
PS9 Grey Hairst
(meant to be silver.) The last poems published in the 20th
century. S.B. Kelly, Boxing Day Night. Most widely quoted: Mike Dillon's
New Parliament: 'this time, at last, they're our bastards'
PS8 Red: Festival
Bumper Issue contributors include Peter Russell, Morelle
Smith. Readers favourites: Ian Blake, That Sunday nothing happened, Colin Donati,
Imperfect jottings on a subject.
PS7 Blue Summer contributors include Edwin Morgan
PS6 Mauve: Spring
contributors include Alastair Gray, Sudeep Sen, Tom Pow
Readers' favourite: Des Dillon's Change at Preston
PS5 Blue Waysgoose. The first 8-pager; Gavin Bowd's 3-page long
poem East. Colin Will, Scottish Poets Picnic Report. Anna Crowe, Gollops
PS4 Red Festival
Issue contributors include Les Murray, Tom Pickard, Tessa
Ransford
PS 3 Orange Issue
Three contributors include Jack Mapanje
Readers favourite: Kenneth C. Steven, Freedom
PS 2 Green Second Pilot Issue contributors include Edwin Morgan
PS 1 Red Fundraising
Issue contributors include Iain Crichton Smith
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