Sleekit

Sleekit: Contemporary poems in the Burns stanza collects recent poetry in the form by some of the most exciting poets writing in Scotland today. Here are poems which conform to the structure of the Burns stanza alongside poems which seek to stretch and twist it; poems in Scots, English, and JavaScript; poems on topics as diverse as buffalypso, sex toys, and Robert Burns himself. The work in Sleekit shows the vital role the Burns stanza plays in contemporary Scottish poetry.

Sleekit is edited by Lou Selfridge and features poetry by Katie Ailes, Craig Aitchison, Janette Ayachi, Stephen Dornan, Roshni Gallagher, Harry Josephine Giles, W.N. Herbert, David Kinloch, Simon Lamb, Iain Morrison, Jeda Pearl, Calum Rodger, Stewart Sanderson, Gill Shaw, Maria Sledmere, Taylor Strickland & Kate Tough.