Poems

To read poems click on the title.

Recent Poems

Shortlisted in the Aesthetica competition, 2024 and published in their Creative Writing magazine 24/25:

The End of Writing about my Mother

Shortlisted in the  single poem category of the Wigtown Poetry Competition, 2023:

Lilias

 Selection from my pamphlet 'Ortelius' Sea-Monsters',     

winner of the   Alistair Reid Prize, Wigtown Festival, 2023:

Ziphius or Xiphius

The Roider

Inside the Whale Museum

To a Humpback Whale

Commended in the Troubadour International Poetry Prize, 2023:

Mary Shelley's Babies

Wales Poetry Award, 2022, 2nd Prize:

Clara the Rhinoceros

 Shortlisted in the Strokestown competition, 2009:

Your Voice 

Poems inspired by Shetland or Orkney

The Wind's Rant

Makkin

The Njuggle

Eynhallow Sound

My Love, the Shetland Trowie

 Poems on  Glass Art

Blue

Silk Cocoons

Acrobat au Cirque du Soleil 

Other Poems

Imago Mundi

Hanmer's Agate

Razzle Dazzle Cabaret

Meadow Lane Riffs

The Lunatic Laundress

Tontine Ghosts

 Wee Nippy Sweeties