Prose The Tip Jar depicts the greasy and dark world of rural Spain on Christmas Eve where women in search of a good time instead find fear. At the beginning of the night, we’d had almost all the money we had taken from the tip jar (we’d only bought a pack of cigarettes after buying …
Non-Fiction Tom Byam Shaw reviews the new collection of poetry from Aberdeen-based poet Parel Joy and shines a light on some of the nuances there-in. “time is not linear” opens Parel Joy’s first poem titled ‘queen of cups’ in their collection of the same name “but lately it’s been disaster / after disaster / after …
Music Sand, Silt, Flint is an enchanting and ambitious project lead by Scottish/Burmese folk experimentalist Fiona Soe Paing and featuring a glittering array of local musical talent. This album blends traditional timbres and lyrics with ground-breaking production techniques, featuring a mixture of re-arranged traditional ballads and new compositions. Dark, mysterious, haunting in the most scintillating …
