This page has evolved to include not only publications but competition results and public readings.
What’s new, December 2009
Upcoming event: I’m an invited participant in The Social Sessions 03: Base Pairs and Couplets. 13 Jan 2010. Organised by the ESRC Genomics Forum in partnership with the Scottish Poetry Library.
Fiction
‘Southbound from Park Street.’ In The Human Genre Project. 2009.
‘Pretty Boy.’ In The Dogstar and Other Science Fiction Stories. Leaf Books, 2008.
Poetry
Winner of the adult category in the Gorgie City Farm National Poetry Day Competition. 2009.
‘Captain’s Colours.’ Highly commended by Carol Ann Duffy in the Yeovil Literary Prize. 2009.
‘Photophobia.’ In The Human Genre Project. 2009.
‘Uncle Albert.’ In Standing on the Cast-Iron Shore and Other Poems. Leaf Books, 2008.
‘Rats.’ In Outbox and Other Poems. Leaf Books, 2007.
‘Leaves.’ Haiku Scotland 11. 2006.
‘St. Petersburg, 1922,’ ‘Jewish Afterlife,’ ‘Severance,’ ‘Andrei’s Funeral,’ ‘Writing the Sound of Water,’ ‘Falling in Love with Beckett,’ ‘The Navigator’s Bliss,’ ‘By Train Through the Rhymney Valley,’ and ‘After an Elision of Light.’ Chapman 105. 2004.
Other writing
Comedy reviews in The Skinny:
- Jimmy Carr: Joke Technician (Dunfermline, June 2009)
- Andrew Clover: Dad Rules (Glasgow, March 2009)
- Lunchtime Laffs and Lattes (Glasgow, March 2009)
Walking the Line for the WGA. Pop Vultures, December 2007.
Academic and related:
- The Awkward Blot: George Eliot’s Reception and the Ideal Woman Writer. Nineteenth-Century Gender Studies issue 3.1 (spring 2007).
- Breaking Out of the Cage: Mona Caird and her Reception in the Victorian Press. Folio 8, 2004.
NB these aren’t all my publications by a long shot, but most of the early ones aren’t available.
