Warm Glow from Winter Words

Added on 04 February 2017

This week I received a new-to-me poetry magazine, The Poets’ Republic, through the post and I’ve been hugely enjoying reading it with my cup of tea in bed these last few mornings. I received it because the guest editor, Helena Nelson of Happenstance, suggested I should submit poems to it...

Teaching at the University of the Highlands and Islands

Added on 28 January 2017

I am delighted to have been hired by the University of the Highlands and Islands to lecture the 'Exploring Creative Writing' module for their MLitt course. I'll be leading weekly video conferences for twelve weeks from February 2017 and I'm hugely looking forward to it.

Trees fall, life goes on

Added on 28 January 2017

A year ago, my mother died a few days before her birthday, so this has been a difficult week of memories of the saddest time of my life. I had an interview, unavoidably, on her birthday, which was difficult and, perhaps not surprisingly. unsuccessful. I wasn't at my best. Yet sometimes such diff...