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 ...

Inverewe Garden

Added on 01 November 2019

I have had a fantastic time as poet in residence at Inverewe Garden during 2019, which culminated with a joint exhibition of work with five other women artists ('Wise Women of the Earth') with whom I've been lucky enough to collaborate over the summer. I am absolutely delighted to be ask...

New Poetry Collection

Added on 10 April 2019

My long-awaited poetry collection, Why the Sky is Far Away, is now out. The launch event was at the Scottish Poetry Library in Edinburgh on 6 April. I'm grateful to all who came along despite the sky being wet and not very far away at all! I will be doing a Highland launch care-of Highland Lit o...