Pushing Out the Boat
- probably the best regional literary magazine in Scotland,
- high quality writing, with a unique blend of the local and the global.
- a thrilling place to be published alongside writers and artists from around the world
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Issue 14 is here. Launched on the 30th April, our latest edition has been described as a ‘beautifully produced treasure house of new writing and art’. It boasts an array of inspiring work from talented authors, poets and artists, introduced by a glowing Foreword by novelist and poet Wayne Price and artist Tom Hammick’s personal inspiration for the image on which the eye-catching cover is based.
Click on the image below to take a peek.
We are honoured to have been gifted use of an image by prize-winning artist Tom Hammick for this edition’s front cover. The cover is based on the print Violetta and Alfredo’s Escape which was inspired by the artist’s time in residence at English National Opera (ENO). Tom Hammick won the 2016 V&A Prize at the International Print Biennale and his work is on display in major public and corporate collections. Based in Southern England, he is also printing new editions at Peacock Visual Arts in Aberdeen, where he was Artist-in-Residence in 2016.
Issue 14 can be purchased from our retail outlets or ordered from our online store.
After looking at Issue 14, why not browse through other editions of the magazine. Read extracts from our previous edition, Issue 13, and dip into the full online versions of Issues 9 – 12. Then visit our online shop where all editions of the magazine are available for purchase.
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The POTB Blog
- An Interview with Heather Reid (POTB, 19 Jul 2017)
- Love to Write? Advice from John Bolland (POTB, 21 Jun 2017)
- An Interview with Martin Walsh (POTB, 31 May 2017)
- Reflections on the Launch of Pushing Out the Boat Issue 14 (Yani Georgieva & Harrison Abbott, 16 May 2017)
- An Interview with Tom Hammick (POTB, 7 May 2017)
News
- Issue 14 is launched
- Tom Hammick revealed as Front Cover artist for Issue 14
- POTB now available at Aberdeen Royal Infirmary
- Issue 12 now available to read in full online.
- Check out our Useful Links page for literary organisations, publications, events and POTB contributors.
There has been a regular poetry night at Books and Beans since 2003 when it became the venue for evenings run by the Dead Good Poets group, with the support of Craig Wilcox and his staff. Since 2010, the event (now called Poetry at Books and Beans) has been run by poet and novelist Olivia McMahon and from summer 2017 it will be organised by poets Bernard Briggs, Richie Brown and Judith Taylor.
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What talent we have on POTB! Poetry panelist Ian Crockatt’s new book of translations from Old Norse, ‘THE SONG WEIGHER: Complete Poems of Egill SKallagrímsson, Tenth Century Viking and Skald’ is available from www.arcpublications.co.uk or via all good bookshops from 7th August. There’s an introduction by the translator, linocut illustrations by Wenna Crockatt and a preface by professor Roberta Frank of Yale university, who refers to ‘the stirring verse of Egill Skallagrímsson, here brilliantly translated by Ian Crockatt’ .
Plus there's more! BBC Radio 4’s Sunday afternoon 'Mother Tongue’, a series of 4 half hour programmes at 4.30pm, focusing on poetry in translation, includes a section on Ian's first book of translations from Old Norse, ‘CRIMSONING THE EAGLE’S CLAW: The Viking Poems of Rǫgnvaldr Kali Kolsson, Earl of Orkney’. The book was a Poetry Book Society Recommendation in 2014. The programme, to be broadcast on Sunday 30th July, includes a couple of poems – the Old Norse versions as well as the translations – read on a wild day on Aberdeen beach, as well as some in the studio. ... See MoreSee Less
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The latest installment on the POTB blog is an interview with Perthshire-based Heather F. Reid - a contributor to POTB 14 and several previous issues of the magazine. We spoke with Heather to find out more about her journey to becoming a published writer.
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