Selected writing

 
 

A New Project
Forthcoming

On the solace of deep time and other lives in the Isle of Skye.


After cancer, a new territory
Liminal Ground, 2025

On the strangeness of life after cancer.


Finding Anne
Lodestars Anthology, 2017

On Anne of Green Gables and Prince Edward Island.


Paradise Found
Lodestars Anthology, 2015

On Lord Howe Island in the Tasman Sea.


Between Durham and Edinburgh on the East Coast Line
Lodestars Anthology, 2015

On travelling by train.


The Poetry of Daffodils
Lodestars Anthology, 2014

On poetry making a home for you elsewhere.


For Kerry, afterwards
Shortlisted for the Bridport Prize, 2011

On the death of a dear friend.


There are breezes that travel only by grasses
Shortlisted for the Bridport Prize, 2011

On breezes in churchyards.


Biting Anorexia
Finch Publishing (Sydney), 2008 and New Harbinger Publishing (US), 2009

On finding one’s self after anorexia and depression.