Art and poetry hand in glove

Added on 12 July 2018

‘Collaboration’, says Michael Longley, the Irish poet, ‘is the opposite of loneliness.’ He sits with his back to the window, on the sill of which a metal trout, with pennies for scales, swims beneath a fragment of a poem stencilled on the glass: ‘I am the trout ...

Events in August

Added on 12 July 2018

I'll be reading from The Walrus Mutterer at Blackwell's Edinburgh Festival fringe event on Thursday 9 August 2018 at 6pm. Come along for a signed copy, or just to find out about the story of Pytheas and his amazing Iron Age journey to these parts. I'll also be doing an event in Glasgow ...

On foreign shores

Added on 04 June 2018

Wally the wandering walrus has been wending his way back north after my book launch and celebrations. Meanwhile, I have been trickling southwards in our sailing boat, called Each Mara, which is Gaelic for walrus. We have finally washed up on the shores of Rathlin Island, just off the coast of Northe...