Breaking News:
Sept 12th, 2025 , Fri 7pm GMT. Part of PoetryLit's 2-day Festival online to celebrate the ending after 5 years of PoetryLit . I will be reading along with other members of the PoetryLit team: Milla Van Der Have, Iain Whitely, Lydia Harris and Walco Van Loon. Sept 13th, Sat will be a special event featuring 9 of PoetryLit's favourite poets.
Dec, 2024. 'The End of Writing about my Mother' is shortlisted in Aesthetica's poetry competition and will be published in their magazine.
18-20 Oct, 2024 Delighted to be reading at the Poetry on the Lake Festival in Orta San Giulio, Piedmont, Italy.
2nd Aug, 2024 So pleased I'll be reading as part of the Wee Gaitherin in Stonehaven, (near Aberdeen).
29th June, 2024: Thrilled to be reading at Perdu poetry/arts venue in Amsterdam to support Milla Van Der Have.
June 19-23rd, 2024 Delighted that the composer Fraser D. Mcdonald has set one of my St Kilda poems, 'The Leaving of St Kilda' to music for voices. It will be sung by
Edinburgh University Chamber Choir on their Scandinavian Summer Tour to Gothenburg, Malmo (Sweden) and Copenhagen (Denmark).