Come and listen! My first reading will be at St Bride's Church Hall, 21 Greenlees Road Cambuslang G72 8JB, at 2.30 on 7th May. There will be music as well as poetry from me and Anne Connolly, tea and cake!
The second one will be at St Mungo's Mirrorball, in Waterstones on Sauchiehall Street, on 1...
My next full collection of poetry, Comrades of Dark Night will come out in May 2026. Like my previous work it is grounded in the awareness of my locality. In recording the processes of connecting with a new home and different landscape, it deals with questions of displacement and alienation, haunt...
On 21st March it is World Poetry Day. Thanks to the lovely people in charge there, I will be in Cambuslang Library at 11 o'clock to talk about my poetry. I'll read a few poems, including some from the new book - due out in March next year - and I'll have books to sell.
It would be wonderful to s...
Writer performer and educator Susan Richardson and I are collaborating to offer a poetry workshop on the themes raised by human interactions with plants. Susan will focus on houseplants, and I will consider the wild plants we can find in our locality.
The original workshop was schedued for 18th A...
My next full collection of poetry, working title The Midsummer Foxes will come out in March 2026.
My review of Helen Ivory's stunning new poetry collection is up on The Glasgow Review of Books
A new poem, Transplanted, can be found on the site of the wonderful poetry journal Atrium
Dumfries-based artist Hugh Bryden who created the beautiful Charms for the Healing of Grief bracelet box, has very kindly given permission for the use of this image for the cover of Comrades of Dark Night.
The first launch events are being organised for May - the first is
2.30 7th May at St Brid...
Six of my poems will feature in the Solstice Issue of Littoral Magazine, https://littoralpressuk.jimdofree.com/littoral-magazine/ due out on 21st June.
I will have work in the next three editions of the online literary magazine Mugwort. https://mugwortmag.wordpress.com/ There will be a poem in...
If you have been waiting for news about the new book, I am sorry to have to tell you that the launch of Comrades of Dark Night has been rescheduled to May. However, this will now be in conjunction with the twentieth anniversary celebrations of the founding of [Red Squirrel Press.]() In an era wher...
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The big news this week is that the manuscript of Comrades of Dark Night is finished and away to the publisher for consideration. All being well it will be out in May, and there will be a lot of promotion posts over the next few months, with news of launch events and readings and so on as details bec...