Titles in print
A sympathetic, if quite unsentimental, treatment of the natural world, or the rural one at least, does run throughout his poetry, but so do the themes of love, family relationships, the nature and power of art, and that time-honoured subject of poetry – the fragility and transitoriness of life itself… His art is often the elegant understatement which seems to deny art, but which is in fact one of its highest forms. — David McCordick, Scottish Literature in the Twentieth Century
Underwood Mariscat, 2022 |
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Other Worlds Polygon, 2022 |
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Aspects of Edinburgh Scotland Street Press, 2019 |
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Against The Light Mariscat, 2016 |
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The Touch of Time: New and Selected Poems Bloodaxe, 2014 |
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Estuary Mariscat Press, 2012 |
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The Breakfast Room |
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The Loving Cup Mariscat Press, 2007 |
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Ghosts At Cockcrow Bloodaxe 2005 |
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Stolen Light: Selected Poems Bloodaxe 1999 |
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Archive
About his poems there hover ghosts of rhymes, as if the world is held together by a certain frailty, to which the main answers are love and compassion. His is the poetry of a concerned, humane man, who recognises that our virtues are hard fought for and that our good fortune is very vulnerable and brittle. — Iain Crichton Smith, The Scotsman
In The Blood |
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At the Aviary Snailpress (South Africa) 1995 |
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The Luncheon Of The Boating Party Bloodaxe 1992 |
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In The Kibble Palace Bloodaxe 1987 |
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Under The Ice |
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An Ear To The Ground Hutchinson 1972 |
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Stoats In The Sunlight Hutchinson 1968 |