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Sept 13th, 2025 15.00 GMT Day 2 of PoetryLit's Festival Finale. I will be hosting the featured poets Vasiliki Albedo, Ronna Bloom and Sukhema. Can be watched Livestream on PoetryLit's Facebook page and on You Tube.
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.
August 30th, 2025 'The Leaving of St Kilda' set to music for 4 voices has another outing. This time sung by the Seraphim choir in St Giles Cathedral, Edinburgh.
August 4th, 2025 at 16.30-17.00 my poem 'The Leaving of St Kilda' will be read during the Edinburgh Fringe as part of a fiddle and harp gig 'Scottish Roots' with fiddle player, Alastair Savage and harpist Ailie Robertson at St Mark's Church, Castle Terrace, Edinburgh.
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 was sung by
Edinburgh University Chamber Choir in Copenhagen (Denmark) on their Scandinavian Summer Tour.