Published Poetry & Media:

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1978 - Shortlisted and published in Sunday Times Poetry Competition. This poem was read on BBC2 by Martin Amis.

1986 - Winner of the James McCash Prize for poetry in Scots, Glasgow University

1986 - Four poems published in New Writing Scotland (later used by the SQA as a text for practical criticism)

1988 - STV, Recorded on In Verse, a series of programmes collecting readings from Scotland’s living poets. Produced by Michael Greive

1993 - 'A Mindin,' poem anthologised by The Michael Bruce Memorial Trust

1996 - Tom’s Boat and Other Poems, Collection of poems published by Peebles Arts Festival

1996 - Poem in The Kist/A'Chiste, the national project to provide material in Scotland’s threee languages for schools

1998 - Script for BBC Radio Scotland educational programme on Lewis Grassic-Gibbon's Sunset Song for senior school students, with accompanying notes. Produced by Gerda Stevenson

2000 - 12 poems publised in Jorum: Anthology of Scottish Borders Writers (ed. Tom Bryan), published by SBC Arts & Library Service

2000 - Scottish Poetry Library’s Holyrood Poetry Link Scheme, paired with the MSP for Tweeddale, Ettrick and Lauderdale

2017 -  Poem anthologised in 100 Best Scottish Poems for Reading Aloud publised by Luath Press

1990 - present - a series of theatrical reviews for local press (Peeblesshire News, Southern Reporter) e.g. of Tweed Theatre, Rowantree Theatre, Shakespeare at Traquair.

Review of Gerda Stevenson’s first book of poems in The Eildon Tree

Poems published Northwords 

Poems and short stories publised in The Eildon Tree.

 

Shows & Theatre Productions​:

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1995 -  'Fringes of Gold,' Tweed Theatre

1997 -  'A Glamour of Islands,' Tweed Theatre 

2000 - 'Tam Lin' (a show based on my prose version), Riddles Courtt, Edinburgh Festival Fringe

2006 -  'As Long As We Both Have Wings,' in Neidpath Castle with friends from Tweed Theatre

2013 -  'South East by North West,' Peebles Arts Festival

2015 -  'The Greater Craftsman,' Peebles Arts Festival

2017 -  'Why the Birds Sing,' TradFest TradFest Dùn Èideann 

 

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Music & Song:

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'The Beggar at the Gate' was given a tune and recorded by English folk singer Carolyn Robson on her album Dawn Chorus

Setting of Marion Angus' poem 'The Wild Lass' is now part of folk singer Elsa Lemaitre’s repertoire

Music for Tweed Theatre’s Fringe production of George Mckay Brown’s Olaf Isbister (5 star review)

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