Coming out of lockdown today – my book ‘Return by Minor Road’ is officially published 25 June.
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Film of me reading ‘Cormorant’
The Cambridge Writing Retreat has been featuring a different poet each day in June in their podcast and on their website. I’m today’s featured poet, reading my poem ‘Cormorant’.
Five poems in The High Window
Four poems from my new Bloodaxe collection ‘Return by Minor Road‘ are in fine company in The High Window magazine.
My review of Jennifer Wong’s ‘Letters Home’ for Poetry School
I recently reviewed Jennifer Wong’s accomplished new collection ‘Letters Home’ from Nine Arches Press for Poetry School. Jennifer Wong’s accomplished new collection ‘Letters Home’ from Nine Arches Press for Poetry School. It’s an enlightening collection that resists easy answers to questions of identity, geography, and belonging that affect us all.
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First review of my new book
A thorough and thought-provoking review of my new book ‘Return by Minor Road’, out now with Bloodaxe, has been posted by poet Christopher James.
Winner of the Plough Prize
It’s wonderful to have some good news in these strange times. A poem from my new book has been awarded first prize in the prestigious Plough Prize poetry competition.
Five poems in Tentacular magazine
A batch of poems from my new collection, ‘Return by Minor Road’, which will be published by Bloodaxe in April, have gone up at innovative online journal Tentacular magazine.
New book ‘Return by Minor Road’ in April 2020
My third Bloodaxe collection ‘Return by Minor Road’ is out on 23 April. It focuses on my time living in Dunblane at the time of the Primary School shooting in March 1996. Through poems about landscape and loss, the poems explore the lasting impact of being an ‘incoherent bystander’ at such a tragedy.
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New poems in Whale Road Review and The Curlew
A couple of poems that are in my next collection (Return by Minor Road, due out from Bloodaxe in April 2020) have been published recently in poetry journals.
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The Valley Press Anthology of Prose Poetry
This weekend sees the launch of the Valley Press Anthology of Prose Poetry edited by Anne Caldwell and Oz Hardwick. I’ll be reading as part of a line up of contributors.