Virtual Launch of The Lyre Dancers

Added on 03 April 2020

Thanks very much to Elizabeth Rimmer for hosting a virtual launch of The Lyre Dancers, given the cancellation of all my other April and May launch events. You can go to it here on her Burned Thumb website and blog. It's great that in this weird time of the corona virus lockdown there seems to be...

The Lyre Dancers is here!

Added on 21 March 2020

Today I launched The Lyre Dancers in an intimate little ceremony by the cave in the corner of the beach in Achmelvich - Traigh Blaran Eadir, otherwise Yates' beach, formerly Vestey's beach. All the other launch events have been cancelled due to the virus pandemic, but it seemed a shame not t...

The Lyre Dancers launches

Added on 10 March 2020

The third volume of my historical novel trilogy, The Lyre Dancers, is now available! It will be launched, appropriately enough, at three events, first close to home, then in Inverness where I work and then back in the Iron Age, where it belongs, in a crannog! 3pm Saturday 21 March, Traigh Blaran Ea...

Upcoming events

Added on 11 February 2020

I have lots of events on the horizon for spring 2020 - so if you'd like to come and hear me read or chat or get a signed book, please come along! 7.30pm, Tuesday 11 February, reading at the Centre for Contemporary Arts, Glasgow as part of the STEM poets event on climate change. 12.30, Wednesday...

Poetry exhibition

Added on 29 January 2020

Not many poets get to have a solo exhibition in an art gallery, so I am super-excited that I will have an exhibition in the Sawyer Gallery at Inverewe Garden, opening on Saturday 2 May 2020. It's called 'Trees Meet Sea' and it will consist of 14 pieces of art - a mixture of sculpture, ce...

The Lyre Dancers

Added on 03 January 2020

The third volume of the Stone Stories trilogy, completing the sequence of The Walrus Mutterer and The Amber Seeker is due for publication by Saraband Books on the spring equinox in March 2020. It's already available for pre-order. More details of launch events etc will follow shortly. The cover ...