Publications

Spinning Plates (HappenStance Press, 2012), a poetry pamphlet
Ballast Flint (Cromarty Arts Trust, 2013), a poetry pamphlet
Cairn (Nine Arches Press, 2014), a poetry collection
(as editor) Finishing the Picture: The Collected Poems of Ian Abbot (Kennedy & Boyd, 2015)
Passport (Nine Arches Press, 2018), a poetry collection
(as co-editor with Alistair Peebles) The Tiny Talent: Selected Poems by Joan Ure (Brae Editions, 2018)
(as editor, contributor and introducer) Sydney Goodsir Smith, Poet: Essays on his life and work (Brill, 2020)
(as co-interviewer with Walter Perrie) Conversations with Scottish Writers No. 8: John Herdman (Fras Publications, 2020)
First Hare (Mariscat Press, 2020), a poetry pamphlet.
Coping Stones (Fras Publications, 2021), a poetry pamphlet.
(as co-editor with Peter Burnett) Not Dark Yet: A Celebration of John Herdman (Leamington Books, 2021).

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Academic / literary articles:

(2011) The influence of Sir Thomas Urquhart on the work of poet Sydney Goodsir Smith – in Sir Thomas Urquhart of Cromarty: 400th Anniversary Conference (ed. Alexander F. Thomson).
(2012) review of A Time of Tyrants: Scotland and the Second World War by Trevor Royle – in The Edinburgh Review (no. 134).
(2013) ‘Luve’s Arcane Delirium’: A Reading of Sydney Goodsir Smith’s Under the Eildon Tree – in Scottish Literary Review.
(2013) ‘This reluctant ink’: The poetry of Roderick Watson – online at textualities.
(2013) review of The Edinburgh Companion to 20th Century British and American War Literature – online at textualities.
(2013) ‘Committed and Confessional’: Sorley MacLean’s Poetry of World War Two – in eSharp.
(2013) ‘Ferns like poems’: The poetry of Ian Abbot – in Northwords Now (no. 24).
(2013) ‘Angus in Tollcross’: The Poetry of Angus Calder – in The Dark Horse (no. 30).
(2014) ‘Maister Francois Villon’ and the Translations of Tom Scott, William J. Tait and Norman Cameron – in Quaich: An Anthology of Translation in Scotland Today.
(2014) (co-authored with Stefanie Van de Peer) Acknowledged Legislators: ‘Lived experience’ in Scottish poetry films – in International Journal of Scottish Theatre and Screen.
(2015) ‘Hay saw Bizerta burn’: Scottish Poetry in North Africa during World War Two – online at al.arte magazine.
(2015) ‘The Adjacent Kingdom of England’: England, Scotland and World War Two in the Poetry of Douglas Young – in Études Ecossaises.
(2015) review of Rosemary Tonks The Bedouin of the London Evening – online at Magma.
(2015) Two articles on Sydney Goodsir Smith (‘On the trail of the extinct Auk’ and ‘Sydney Goodsir Smith’s Skail Wind‘) – in Fras (no. 22).
(2015) ‘Mak siccar’: A Reading and Critical Commentary of Hamish Henderson’s Elegies for the Dead in Cyrenaica – in Anent Hamish Henderson: Essays, Poems, Reviews.
(2015) ‘Amang the Buiks’ (An essay on bookcollecting) – in The Dark Horse (20th Anniversary).
(2016) The Sinner by Stuart MacGregor – online at Bella Caledonia.
(2016) reviews of poetry collections by Gregory Woods, Mel Pryor and Yvonne Green – in Magma (no. 64).
(2016) article on the poetry of Ian Abbot – online at the Scottish Poetry Library website.
(2016) article on the poetry of Andrew Young – online at the Scottish Poetry Library website.
(2016) article on the poetry of Douglas Young – online at the Scottish Poetry Library website.
(2016) article on the poetry of Alasdair Maclean – online at the Scottish Poetry Library website.
(2016) article on the poetry of Alexander Scott – online at the Scottish Poetry Library website.
(2016) article on the poetry of Ruthven Todd – online at the Scottish Poetry Library website.
(2016) article on the poetry of Alan Bold – online at the Scottish Poetry Library website.
(2016) article on the poetry of Tom Buchan – online at the Scottish Poetry Library website.
(2016) Joan Ure: The dangers of fighting to be heard in poetry – online at Dangerous Women Project.
(2017) Poetry – Can you make a living from that? – online at Versopolis.
(2017) ‘Tom Scott as Religious Poet: The Paschal Candill in Context’ – in Studies in Scottish Literature.
(2017) ‘Mither Tongue’: Scottish Women Poets of the 20th Century – in The Dark Horse (no. 38).
(2017) Sydney Goodsir Smith on Roy Campbell – in Fras (no. 27).
(2017) four reviews of various poetry collections for The Bottle Imp.
(2017) review of two ASLS companion volumes (Edwin Morgan and Scottish Poetry) – in Scottish Affairs.
(2018) article on the poetry of Joan Ure – online at the Scottish Poetry Library website.
(2018) review of Scotland in Europe / Europe in Scotland – in Scottish Studies Newsletter.
(2019) article on Edwin Morgan’s poetry of World War Two with an emphasis on his long poem sequence ‘The New Divan’, published online at Wild Court.
(2019) joint article written with Alistair Peebles about the poetry of Joan Ure, online at the Brae Editions website.
(2019) critical article: ‘A Man in Constant Revolt: Hugh MacDiarmid’s Poetry of World War Two’ – in International Review of Scottish Studies.
(2019) 2000 word review of MacGillivray’s The Gaelic Garden of the Dead from Bloodaxe, on the Poetry School website.
(2020) article ‘Remembering Alexander Hutchison‘ for Wild Court.
(2020) peer-reviewed article, ‘”I am just as typically Scottish”: G. S. Fraser as Scottish Poet’ in Studies in Scottish Literature Vol. 45 / Issue 2.
(2020) ‘“It does not mak siccar you ken aboot weemin”: The Fight to be Heard in the Poetry of Joan Ure’ – a long critical article on the poetry of Joan Ure – in Journal of Irish and Scottish Studies Vol 10 / Issue 2 (‘Love, Loss and Landscape’).
(2021) ‘Introduction’ to the new reprint of Stuart MacGregor’s novel The Sinner (Leamington Books, Edinburgh).
(2021) new poem ‘Mr. Fleet’ in The Spectator.

Reviews (I review or have reviewed poetry collections for the following):

Poetry School
The Compass
Agenda
London Grip
Sabotage
The Warwick Review
Northwords Now
Magma
Glasgow Review of Books
Sphinx
Gutter
Elsewhere
The Bottle Imp

Interviews:

Interviewed by Paul Stephenson
Interview at Poetry Spotlight

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