I am waiting for Heaney’s ship to pass by destination Breasail or another enchanted Isle. The flight of dream in…
End of Winter
The earth is hard and the roads are potholed. Snowdrops are forming galaxies in woods. The burn is bubbling, or…
The Garden and Things That Buzz
I am not the best gardener. I am not proud of this fact. My cack green handedness was planted early.…
Glimpses of Inbetween
Hypnotic road hum of car engine city skyline falling behind possibility of space in front inner monologues unravelling with the…
Book Review of ‘Thin Places’
‘Thin Places’ by Kerri ni Dochartaigh weaves the troubled political history of Derry with the personal life of the author…
A Picture of Wind
The wind is ca’ing ootside strewing leaves aboot, thunderin agin cauld stane n’ whistlin doon lums moanin an lowin lik…
Psychogeography
Mountain Storm The sun is sliding behind a mountain gilding its edges in gold and turning valleys into creeping blacks.…
From Here To There
From here to there is a road up a hill. It begins in a tunnel of trees where crows live,…
Remembering Trees
Reading the following essay, penned in March 2020, I was glad to find it better than I remembered (I had…
Spring Garden
The garden is waking up, I think it was the dazzle from the daffodils that finally did it, for months…
Spaces
I prefer silence to noise, wild places to cities. I choose minimal before clutter and haikus over poetry. I like…
Can Wild Places Heal Us?
Can Wild Places Heal Us? A question for The John Byrne Award 2020. Walking in the hills of wild places…
Mountain Haiku in Blue
A small hand stitched book about mountains, haikus and the colour blue. To buy this book visit my online shop…
Bluettes
Blue Things I like: 1. The sky on a sunny day 2. Bluebells, Forget-me-nots and Comfrey flowers 3. The sea…
Dubh Abhainn
The harbour holds still water. Silhouettes break the curved horizon. Daffodils wave to the passing breeze. A Great Tit’s song…
Lumsden Haiku
Cloud lines on string Cut out hills leave space In a blue blanket On this spring morning Nature has a…
Deep Mapping
I have started mapping through various scales and time with writing as a descriptor and director of various aspects of…
Art Proceeds Without A Map
“It is only through the senses that we experience what it means to be fully human. It is only through…
The Restless Landscape – An Acoustic Exploration of the Post-Pastoral Idyll
An exploration of the possibilities of eco-acoustics as an artistic/poetic listening practice in relation to a reading of poetry…
Art Review for ‘We Thrive’
Ingela Ihrman is a Swedish artist and ‘We Thrive’ at Cooper Gallery is her first UK solo exhibition. Ihrman explores…
