Publications

Of Algae & Grief
(Dempsey & Windle, 2021)

Winner of the Brian Dempsey Memorial Prize
PBS Spring Pamphlet Choice 2022

This is a vivid and deeply moving collection, full of poems that press on all the aches and shades of loss of people, of place, of myths. Here, you will find an essential cartography for moving through, and bearing witness to, the cyclic tides of grief and hope and all the creatures that inhabit there between.
— Roseanne Watt

William Soutar: Collected Works
Vols 1 & 2 (co-editor)
Tippermuir Press, 2024

Shortlisted for the Scots Book o the Year 2025, Scots Language Awards

William Soutar: Collected Works (Published Poetry) reintroduces one of Scotland’s most significant twentieth-century poets, a champion of Scots, pacifist visionary and forerunner of ecopoetics whose achievement has long been overlooked. This two-volume edition of his published poetry showcases his striking lyric gift in poems of love and community, war and mortality. Soutar was bed-bound by illness for the last fourteen years of his life. His work is testament to his creativity and resilience in the face of adversity.

Poetry

— ‘afterfeather’, ‘slack water’, ‘bield’, ‘skail’, ‘calendula’, ‘marcescence’, ‘fata morgana’, New Writing Sampler, vol. 16 (Scottish Book Trust, 2025)

— ‘Imbolc’, The London Magazine (April/May 2024)

— ‘Girlsong’, ‘Colony’ and ‘After the Tumour’, Horses of a Different Colour (Dempsey & Windle, 2021);

— ‘Winter Solstice, 2020’ and ‘Lucretia’, Gutter 24 (2021)

— ‘Midas’, Poetry Scotland 101 (2021)

— ‘The Amazon Woman’, Northwords Now 39 (Spring 2020)

— ‘Cianalas’, ‘Yesnaby’, and ‘Life Cycle’, Channel 3 (2020)

— ‘Teneu’, Island and Sea (Scottish Writers’ Centre, 2020)

— ‘Tantallon Road’, Sound of an Iceberg: New Writing Scotland 37 (ASLS, 2019)

— ‘Heirloom’ and ‘Medusa’, From Glasgow to Saturn 42 (March 2019)