Suilven - in a blaze of glory

Added on 07 May 2017

Suilven is a seriously special mountain, without doubt my favourite. For the next few months I'm part of a team of people who will be blogging about all aspects of the hill, while two stretches of the path up the mountain are upgraded. You can read my first post here. There will be more. The pro...

Contract!

Added on 29 April 2017

Tomorrow night is Beltane, and I'll be celebrating with a fire as always, but this year with a special zeal as today I signed a contract with Saraband Books for the publication of Stone Stories, my historical novel trilogy! The trilogy is set, as regular readers no doubt know, in the Iron Age. I...

On writing about spring

Added on 15 April 2017

Spring is here again, bringing primroses, geese overhead and all the other delights that come around at this time of year. I’ve just done a podcast of spring poems (here), and realise that I have sinned. Or have I? Reading an anthology of new poetry recently, I was struck by the editorial intr...