The first issue of The Dark Horse was typeset by Gerry Cambridge in early 1995 on the kitchen table of an Ayrshire caravan, its base for its first two years. From these modest beginnings, via two years in Hugh MacDiarmid’s former home, Brownsbank (where Cambridge was poet in residence), it’s now Scotland’s pre-eminent poetry magazine, with strong links to the United States and a considerable and increasing reputation. The full story of its first twenty years, the characters, the stramashes, the controversies, the highlights, can be read about in Cambridge’s entertaining divagatory account, The Dark Horse: The Making of a Little Magazine, which goes some way to explaining the attraction of such an enterprise. For readers wishing a briefer insight into the magazine’s motivations and outlook, please see Cambridge’s essay, ‘Why we do it—Editing a Poetry Magazine’.