Tides in Time
Published by Pushing Out the Boat, 2026 to celebrate 25 years of Pushing Out the Boat, Tides in Time is an anthology of some of the best poetry, prose and art we’ve been proud to print over the years, featuring work from all 18 editions of our magazine.
Tides in Time was launched on Sunday 3rd May, 2026 in the Cowdray Hall, Aberdeen. In recognition of Pushing Out the Boat’s contribution to Aberdeen’s cultural and creative landscape, its production was supported by a grant from Aberdeen City Council’s Culture Investment Programme.
Cover: Soaring High
image by Kathryn McFarlane
Introduction
“Dear Contributor
This year we mark the 25th anniversary of Pushing Out the Boat. To celebrate we’re publishing an anthology of some of the best prose, poems and art from the magazine. May we have permission to include your work…?”
That’s the invitation that went to over 100 authors and artists whose work has appeared in North-East Scotland’s magazine of New Writing and Visual Arts. And here’s the response – a quarter of a century of wonderful writing and wonderful art, not only from Scotland, but from much further afield too.
Enjoy!
Contents
| prose | poetry | art |
| Preface | |
| Editors remember | |
| Knotbrook Taylor | While you were sitting there |
| Eleanor Fordyce | The Lost Shoe |
| Stuart B Campbell | Answering Service |
| Zoë Green | Vitamins |
| Martin Walsh | The Iguana, the Scientist and the Hamburger |
| Nathan Castle | Rewilding |
| Olivia McMahon | Cake Sales at Columbarra |
| Linda Smith | Christmas in Doune |
| Rachel Fox | Snap |
| Gillian Shearer | Mither Tongue |
| Eddie Gibbons | About The Weather |
| Vivien Jones | Gretna Sunrise |
| Kate Percival | New Shoes |
| Sheila Templeton | The Iceberg that Sunk the Titanic |
| Mandy Macdonald | knowing one’s place |
| Heather Reid | Whatever the Sea Brings |
| David Watson Hood | Man in a Mask |
| Hana Horock-Elyafi | The Quest |
| Pat Beveridge | Tied Up, Lower Largo |
| Anke Addy | Morning Light |
| Katarina Chomova | Broadford Works I |
| Jan Holm | Boat Side |
| Ian McDonough | Oratorio |
| John Bolland | The Retention Bonus |
| Helen Lynch | New Era, New Perspective |
| Mary Johnston | Child Education (1940) – II |
| Bernard Briggs | Darcie |
| Morag Skene | Tryin Times |
| Ian Crockatt | Dropped Aitches |
| Rosemary Hector | Thirteen Ways of Looking at a Cow |
| JC Alfier | San Pedro River Night at Fairbank Willow Wash |
| Cal Wallace | The Tattie Box |
| Dorothy Baird | Moving House |
| Gerard Rochford | Ironing a Sari |
| Brian Farrington | Salt Suds for Keeps |
| Ingrid Leonard | Rammo in Stenness |
| Craig Aitchison | The Young–Laplace Equation |
| Christopher Officer | Spikkin |
| Keith Murray | Old Tree |
| Neil Russell | Untitled (Plant Series) |
| Kate Steenhauer | Sentinel Star Readying to Set Sail |
| Joan Burgoyne | Thrushes |
| Andy Hall | Net Knots |
| David Elder | Cutout |
| Hannah Lingard | Lockdown I |
| Catriona Yule | Sandals |
| Max Scratchmann | The Gaelic Teacher and the Dinner Lady |
| Neil Russell | Botanic Gardens Station, Glasgow |
| Haworth Hodgkinson | Ancient History |
| Fraser Paterson | “Buffet Barry” |
| Sally Evans | Rescue Squad |
| Lesley Benzie | Divorced Fae Reality |
| Rob A Mackenzie | John Knox |
| John Bolland | Three North-East Vignettes – 2016 |
| Maureen Ross and Ruth Channing | A woman writes to her imaginary lovers |
| Donald S Murray | Cross School Poems |
| Hannah Kunzlik | Last Journey Home |
| Stephen Busby | Prayer for Great Grandfather |
| Judith Taylor | Hill of Rubislaw |
| Nicola Furrie Murphy | True colours |
| Denise Setterington | The Tunnel |
| A C Clarke | The conversation I never had |
| Maxine Rose Munro | Seaglass |
| Erin Tosh | Mercat Cross |
| Sarah Ellen Macmillan-Taylor | Paul Smith offers |
| Tim Winters | Japan Diary – Stage 22 Okabe |
| Ally Taylor | Gateway |
| Jane Pettigrew | Rocks at Old Portlethen |
| Marka Rifat | Bauhaus Landing |
| Sarah Whiteside | To the Mountains |
| William Hershaw | Ancient Mariner |
| Pàdraig MacAoidh | An doras |
| Jean Atkin | White |
| Shane Strachan | Día de los Muertos |
| Gabrielle Barnby | Distant Shore |
| Lesley Harrison | East Coast Lullaby |
| James Sinclair | Differential Equations |
| Alison Green | The Six Wives o Harry Troup, Nether Bogheid o Hameton |
| Heather Reid | His Heart’s in the Right Place |
| Kate Percival | Cold Coffee |
| Helena Sanderson | Death of a Hawk |
| Malcom Cowie | Cold Times |
| Frank Woods | The Wee Man |
| Jonathan Wonham | Waiting for the Call |
| Stephen Pacitti | The Possum Spider |
| Martin Walsh | New York Dialogue |
| Eleanor Fordyce | Wish You Were Here |
| Lisa Gribbon | Flyaway |
| Charley Sim | The Ploughman |
| David Pettigrew | Evolving Surface |
| Paul Barnes | Black Kitty |
| Jonathan Claxton | SEALINES, SEELINES |
| Marga Schnell | Fyfie |
| Lily Greenall | Frank |
| Sheena Blackhall | Fitty Gloamin |
| Lucy Sutherland | I’m a poet (if nothing else) |
| Zoë Green | Trapped |
| Laura Fyfe | Scream If You Want Tae Go Faster |
| Donald Goodbrand Saunders | Calum at Talmine |
| Donnie Ross | Scunner in the Gallery |
| Alison Green | The Droont Quine |
| Mandy Haggith | Joke |
| EE Chandler | Washing My Mother’s Hair |
| Susan Elsley | Golden Air |
| Gail Riekie | A Cliff Walk in the Haar |
| Biographies | |
| Acknowledgements |
Sample Pieces:
Divorced fae Reality poem by Lesley Benzie
San Pedro River NIght at Fairbank Willow Wash poem by JC Alfier
An Doras poem by Pàdraig MacAoidh
New Era, New Perspective extract from story by Helen Lynch
Whatever the Sea Brings extract from story by Heather Reid
The Six Wives o Harry Troup, Nether Bogheid o Hameton extract from story by Alison Green
The stories by can be read in full in Tides in Time
Sample Art:
Man in a Mask
David Watson Hood
Thrushes
Joan Burgoyne
Bauhaus Landing
Marka Rifat
Evolving Surface
David Pettogrew
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We’re very proud of ‘Tides in Time’. What do you think of it? leave your comments here.
Thanks to everyone who joined us at the launch. It was a joyous event; a befitting celebration of 25 years of POTB. Hope you’re enjoying reading the anthology. Do leave us your comments here.
Delighted to have my poem’Mither Tongue’ included in this beautiful anthology. Taking part in the launch was a real honour. What a lovely community of writers and artists.