poetry

The Trains Have Gone: Gilroy Mere Interview

To mark the release of new LP Adlestrop, the real Gilroy Mere talks to Stewart Gardiner about Clay Pipe Music, the Beeching Report and avoiding nostalgia

Justin Hopper: The Thin Place on My Map Mixtape

Justin Hopper has made an invitingly out of place and out of time mixtape for Concrete Islands to accompany the Chanctonbury Rings album on Ghost Box

Justin Hopper & Sharron Kraus with The Belbury Poly – Chanctonbury Rings (Ghost Box)

Justin Hopper, Sharron Kraus and Belbury Poly have brought the thinnest of places to vivid life in this oddly comforting avant-garde wonder

A Fire That Never Went Out: Leonard Cohen’s The Flame

Chris Bateman rubs shoulders with punk Flamenco singers, accountants and death as he considers Leonard Cohen’s sweet swansong

Decorated and Englished: Alasdair Gray Goes to Hell

Chris Bateman views Alasdair Gray’s translation of Dante as being in the tradition of the best Scottish thinkers from the Enlightenment onwards