Open Book Unbound

We discuss the story "Going somewhere? What happens when the story ends?" by Amy Moreno and the poem 'Bladerunner' by Rob A. Mackenzie.

We discuss 'A Story in Nine Rooms' by Dizz Tate and the poem 'Wetheral' by Claire Askew.

Featuring the story 'Grass is Greener?' by Tom Murray and Gerald Manley Hopkin's poem 'The Caged Skylark'.

On this episode we read the story 'Herzoggies' by Lynnda Wardle and the poem 'Scotland You're No Mine' by Hannah Lavery. Note: the poem in this episode features explicit language.

We welcome in the new year with the story 'Hazy Shade of Blue' by Lorraine Thomson and a poem by John Glenday, 'Bird Sighs for the Air'

On this episode we read Heather Parry's short story ‘To Table’ and the poems ‘Who goes to dine must take his Feast’ by Emily Dickinson and ‘Revelry’ by Open Book Creative Writing Group.

We discuss the short story 'The Serpent' by Rafael Torrubia and two group poem by members of the Oasis Group at Maryhill Integration Network, 'What Every Woman Should Carry' and 'In The Wardrobe'.

This episode features the story 'Histogram' by Katharine Macfarlane and 'Crossing The Loch', a poem from our new Scottish Makar Kathleen Jamie.

We discuss the short story 'The Forthcoming Me' by Catherine Wilson and the poem 'Piano' by DH Lawrence. Photo credit: Heshani Sothiraj Eddleston.

On this episode we discuss the story 'Preserving History' by Angi Holden and the poem 'The Matchsafe' by John Glenday.

On this episode we discuss the short story 'Horses for Courses' by Judy Upton and the poems 'I would not paint — a picture —' (348) and 'Success is counted sweetest' (112) by Emily Dickinson. Image credit: Heshani Sothiraj Eddleston

In this episode we discuss the story 'Inside Her Leg' By Lorraine Thomson and the poem 'Bird-House' by Em Strong.

Claire and Marjorie discuss 'Adelstrop' by Edward Thomas and the story 'There Were Always Roses' by Cath Barton.

We discuss 'The Change' by Ruth Gilchrist and the poem 'Selkie' by Rachel Plummer on this episode of our monthly podcast series. Photo: Heshani Sothiraj Eddleston

On this episode we read the Edwin Morgan poems 'When you go', 'One cigarette' and 'The picnic' and the Morgan inspired story 'On The Ship' by Alice Ash. Photo credit: Heshani Sothiraj Eddleston

In this episode we discuss the short story "Someone else’s house" by Jane Archer and the poem "The House" by Emily Dickinson.

On this episode Marjorie and Claire discuss "A Visit from Niven and Flynn" by Dorothy Lawrenson and "Flying Inside Your Own Body" by Margaret Atwood.

We return with the first of our new monthly podcasts and this one features a new story 'The Christmas Box' by Liz Treacher. We also read the poem 'The Coming of Light' by 
Mark Strand. Find out more on our website openbookreading.com/unbound

In this, the last of our podcasts featuring our commissioned pieces of writing, we discuss 'I took my troubles for a walk (A grown-up fairy tale)' by Pauline Moore and the poem 'Go Among Trees and Sit Still' by Wendell Berry.

We discuss our commissioned story 'Unbound' by Iain Matheson and the poem 'Daisy' by Alice Oswald.

We discuss our commissioned piece 'The Bench' by Beth Godfrey and the poem 'Once Upon a Time' by Gabriel Okara.

In this episode we discuss our commissioned piece 'Orange Peel' by Sophie Law and the poems 'A Birthday' by Edwin Muir and 'The Orange' by Wendy Cope.

We take a break from our commissioned pieces of writing on this episode to read an abridged version of the first chapter from The Enlightenment of the Greengage Tree by Shokoofeh Azar. We also look ahead to the event with the author which our very own Marjorie Lotfi Gill will be chairing at the Edinburgh International Book Festival on Wednesday 19 August at 11.30.

On this episode we discuss our commissioned piece 'The Happy House' by Kathryn Koromilas and the poems 'Little Sea House' by Hamish MacLaren and 'Home is so Sad' by Philip Larkin.

We discuss our commissioned piece ‘Gathering Threads’ by Lisa Williams and ‘The Knitter’ by Jackie Kay.