23 September: Stirling Library (joint launch with Chris Powici)

25 September: St Andrews, St Leonard's Chapel (with special guest Al McClimens)

28 September: Edinburgh, The Graveyard Shift at The Athletic Arms (The Diggers) with Colin Bramwell & Calum Baird

29 September: Glasgow, The Alchemy Experiment, Byres Road [OFFICIAL LAUNCH]

30 September: Milngavie, Daydreams bookshop (joint reading with Vicki Husband)

1 October: Glasgow, St Mungo's Mirrorball at Waterstones, Sauchiehall Street, with others, hosted by Jim Carruth

10 November: London, in-words at Greenwich Library (joint launch with Emily Wills & Alex Josephy, with me on Zoom)

All readings are free except the one in Milngavie at 10-pounds per ticket: www.wegottickets.com/daydreams

• I'm delighted to have been awarded 1st prize in the Magma Poetry Competition 2025/2026, judged by Rishi Dastidar, with my poem The cleverest man in the world.
  
  
• Another, My headband has eleven moth holes, won 2nd prize in the Kent & Sussex Open Poetry Competition 2026, judged by Mimi Khalvati.
  
  
• I am thrilled to have won The Poetry Society's inaugural Tobias Hill Poetry Prize in 2025 with my poem Baggies.
  
  
• Very happy also to have won 1st prizes in the Kent & Sussex Open Poetry Competition 2025 with my poem Oblivious, in the Wells Open Poetry Competition 2025 with my poem Dinger, Short for Shrodinger, and in the Frogmore Poetry Prize 2025 with my poem Pont des Arts.
  
  
• My poem Fractals was awarded 2nd prize in the Ware Open Poetry Competition 2025.
  
  
• Another, Lungs, came in 3rd in the Magma Poetry Competition 2025 (Editors Prize).
  
  
• Finally, my poem In the Garden of Fleeting Mutability, was highly commended in the Charles Causley Trust Poetry Competition 2025.
  
  
  
• The Last Woman Born on the Island was longlisted as one of 12 titles for the Highland Book Prize 2022. It was also named by publisher Vagabond Voices as their best-selling book of 2022, across all categories. Charlotte Gann, writing in The Frogmore Papers, describes the poems as "generous, full of atmosphere and sense of place".
  
  
• Reviews of The Red House have been very forthcoming, perhaps due to the niche-ness of the collection. Hilary Menos of The Friday Poem, says, "love of language underpins this new collection"; Clare Best, writing in The Frogmore Papers, describes it as, "rich in thought, language, memory, story and humanity", while Mandy Haggith calls it "deliciously vivid poetry" in the pages of in Northwords Now. Jennifer McGowan in Orbis says simply, "Read this book". Did my heart do a flutter? Oh yes.