'Craic' is a winner

Added on 28 December 2016

I'm delighted that one of my poems, 'Craic', has been commended by Jo Bell in the Buzzwords Poetry Competition. To celebrate, in my final poetry podcast of the year (I'm doing a podcast each month, if I can), I read it along with a few other poems that have done well in competitions ...

Maritime

Added on 08 November 2016

For the past few weeks we have been on the boat most of the time, making the most of the back end of the sailing season. We grabbed the nice easterly wind and glorious autumn weather of October and sailed across the Minch, and based the boat on the pontoons in Stornoway Harbour. This wasn’t ju...

New woodland charity offer

Added on 01 November 2016

From now until the end of the year, for any copies of my poetry pamphlet A-B-Tree bought from this website I will give a donation to a woodland charity of your choice: either Culag Community Woods, or Reforesting Scotland, or your favourite woodland charity if you can persuade me it's a better c...