Scammer Edited by Lizzi Linklater The issue opens with the

The issue opens with the debut novel of Amjad Nasser

he was brought up by his blind mother and elderly grandmother amid the rigid Presbyterian confines of Scotland’s north-east

poems which combine lambent descriptions of time and place

Mohammed el-Mezdioui

and the power of reading

Scammer Edited by Lizzi Linklater The issue opens with theLuke Roberts had this to say about Scammer: Flaubert said with my burned hand I write about fire. In Scammer, Dom Hale plunges his whole head into the datastream, dictating his blips and theme songs through mouthfuls of toxic waste. He has his own venom: its about style and its about form. These poems dont just sprinkle on a little diction or flip a filter on or off. Theyre not accessories. They perform increasingly desperate attempts to find some