A-B-Tree re-launch and e-launch

Added on 04 November 2017

The Overton-prize-winning short collection of tree poems, A-B-Tree is now reprinting and available to buy, complete with concertina of lovely pictures by Bill Ritchie. It's only available from me, direct. There's a paypal button on this page: A-B-Tree or contact me direct if you don't do...

Still in the Iron Age

Added on 09 September 2017

The dig at Clachtoll broch is still going on and I'm writing regular dig diaries on the broch website. It's getting really exciting, with daily finds from the layers that have been undisturbed for more than two thousand years. So far the parts of my forthcoming novels that are set at the bro...

The Tree Charter

Added on 09 September 2017

I'm really proud to have been commissioned to write the Scottish poem for the launch of the Tree Charter. It is one of ten poems, one for each of the principles of the Charter, and it will be engraved on a totem pole that will be erected at Langs Craig, near Glasgow, on Saturday 25 November (10....