Sample poems:

Hunters in the Snow (first published in Dreich)

Ever After (first published in The Spectator)

I am writing a book about fire (highly commended, McLellan Poetry Competition 2024)

Available from Vagabond Voices

Things That Fruit in Darkness uncovers the hidden worlds of nature and of the human heart, exploring how these two realms reflect each other and what we can learn from this. Poems about the environment portray sheep, rain, types of soil, marine snow, mountains and a Hebridean apple tree that has been growing alone on a cliff face since the Ice Age – all held together by poems about lichen, which is not actually an organism but a relationship within a hybrid colony of bacteria, algae and fungi. The symbiosis of the lichen relationship runs quietly throughout the book: the ways in which we relate to each other, to ourselves and to our bodies: fragile and yet defiantly resistant.

Read this essay I wrote about the genesis of this book which appeared on the publisher's newsletter in June 2026.