Pippa Goldschmidt

WN Herbert TO PORRIDGE 'Auld claes and parritch...' Captain of oats, braw brose, fine gruel, you are thi Scotsman’s constant fuel fae New Year’s Dey till end o Yule (we don’t do Simmer): oan ilka morn ye bring renewal, thi stomach’s zimmer. Ye greet us lyk a fu-fissed mune and guarantee tae fill wir spune wi fushion – see, ye’re cratert roond wi seas o bubbles – tranquillity is aa yir tune, and ease fae troubles. Grey revolutionary fur guts, jump-starter fur thi slo-mo slutz that sends us loupin fae wir cots intae wir sarks (a dram in you gets slob and klutz back tae thir wark). When snaa faas owre thi Border’s pale and Southron bairns can plunk aff skail then even English journos hail wir Northern mannah – are sudden experts oan oatmeal tapped wi a sultana.

Ye’re like a clood-occludit sun that casts grey licht oan ivrywun; thi siller ash on grieshoch; grun ablow thi slush that derns oat-germs that sune will wun thru Winter’s crush. Tho Doctir Johnson caaed ye food fur foals – mair fulmar him – ye’ve plooed thru Scotia’s lard-imprisoned bluid and freed oor veins: dae mealie puddins dae us good? Great Oat, explain! Hoo dae we luve ye? Some wi cream, wi hinny, spice or jeely reamed, while Calvin’s crew hae sauty dreams o fare of auld, powred in a draaer fur bothy teams tae slice oot cauld. ‘Auld claes an parritch’ gaes thi creh wance we hae drunk thi Daft Deys dreh and neath a sober, saft grey skeh we view thi year – we’re nae whit bettir, but we’ll treh wi sic guid gear! Editor's Note: Fushion—wholesomeness, strength; slutz—a leap in skating; sark—shirt; grieshoch—red-hot embers; dern–hide.

Happy #WorldPorridgeDay to all who celebrate! 🥣

Captain of oats, braw brose, fine gruel,
you are thi Scotsman’s constant fuel
fae New Year’s Dey till end o Yule
(we don’t do Simmer)…

—WN Herbert, “TO PORRIDGE”
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A barn owl is perched on a wall at dusk. A full moon has risen in the still blue sky above a small village.

“A full harvest moon is rising, though it is still only twilight”

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Goldsmiths Press to publish my latest novel Alston Moor - Anne Charnock I am totally thrilled that Goldsmiths Press will be publishing my novel Alston Moor in the Autumn of 2026 as part of the press’s Gold SF feminist series.

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‘I am Iron Bard’: Edwin Morgan, Concrete Poetry and the Glasgow High Rises - The Bottle Imp In 1964, Edwin Morgan wrote a concrete poem in homage to the nineteenth-century engineer Isambard Kingdom Brunel, a bridge-shaped graphic verse probably intended to mimic Brunel’s design for the Clift...

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