I am a writer, poet and editor based in Edinburgh. My poems have appeared in Poetry News, the Bridport Prize anthology, Gutter, Poems for Grenfell Tower, Nutmeg and elsewhere.
‘Ode To A Giant Puffball’ was highly commended in the Rialto Nature and Place prize 2024. ‘The Knowledge’ was highly commended in the Rialto Nature and Place prize 2023.
‘Hickory Dickory Duck’ is forthcoming in Perverse Poetry.
My poem ‘Frida Kahlo & Diego Maradona in the Blue House’ was a winner in the Poetry Society members’ prize.
‘The Ballant o Hugh McKail’s Guid Buek’ was highly commended in Edinburgh City Art Centre's Retelling Auld Reekie competition in 2023.
I completed the Writing Poetry MA degree at Newcastle University in 2021 and perform regularly at the Rock The Boat event in Edinburgh and other venues.
TOTALLY THAMES and CREATIVE MILE
My show From The Mouth of The Thames, a series of poems and photographs tracing walks from the mouth of the river all the way to the source 215 miles away, opened at Watermans Arts Centre in Brentford, west London, on 30th August 2023 and ran throughout September. A collaboration with the visual artist Clem Routledge, it explored ecology, personal history and memory, drawing on the richness and associative power of the Thames.
