Image by Pete Linmore, the Digital Artist, www.pixabay.com By Jim Aitken   Do not be fooled by the classical title. The straw-haired clown who started the war is a man much more akin to Homer Simpson than to the author of the Iliad. The epic that came out of ancient Greece has been much reduced in cultural terms to nothing more than a McDonald’s menu, the extent of the straw-haired man’s reading. As for the fury he and his buddy unleashed it was not for any justice that had b

Dove Tales appeared at the Big Lit festival in Gatehouse of Fleet on 20th July 2025. Two of our poets created new work for the event. ...

By JIM AITKEN Thanks to u_clgz40c9ps of www.pixabay.com MacCaig compared one...

Image by Julia Schwab Wearied   Come all ye, come all ye, come all ye young men Come see all your comrades from hill and from glen   We...

Alex Pearce It's a very simple choice as I see it, A choice between Love and Hate, It's wanting the best for our Brothers, Not building a...

By Margaret Elphinstone If you can look into the seeds of time, and say which grain will grow and which will not, speak then unto me. ...

In the bleak aftermath of war a little girl is left alone to scavenge for existence in a mysterious community which has no official place...

by David Betteridge with designs by Walter Crane Could you and I with fate conspire remould the scheme of things entire Nearer to the...

EXTRACT FROM THE NOVEL OF THE SAME NAME BY ALY RENWICK Corporal Rennie dealt with another misfit. ‘And why did you leave your village...

Image by Emmie Norfolk, pixabay MAKING OF A PATRIOT Born free from affiliation To religion, country or team Then conditioned, brainwashed...