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May
2009
Chosen
as one of four
Scottish writers will be heading to France this summer
as the 2009 recipients of the Robert Louis Stevenson
Fellowship, taking up residency at the Hôtel Chevillon
at Grez-sur-Loing – a frequent haunt of Stevenson in
the 1870s which is now an international artists' retreat.The
other writers are Iain Finlay MacLeod, Zoe Strachan,
and Jo Clifford.
This
residency runs from September 11th until October 22nd
and inspired by the French countryside, he plans to
work on a longer sequence exploring man's relationship
with nature.
April
2009
The
poem “Black Cart” comes 3rd in the the prestigious Wigtown
Poetry Competition. Judge Professor Douglas Dunn had
to chose from among 1500 entries in Scotland's leading
poetry competition.
March
2009
The
Cowpit Yowe Exhibition is showcased at the StAnza international
Poetry Festival in St Andrews
The
Poem “The field” is chosen for the anthology Kin – Scottish
poems About Family (Editor – Hamish Whyte) brought out
Polygon
Nov
2008
Created
and performed "Written in the stars" with
Liz Lochhead at The Glasgow Science Centre Planetarium
July
2008
Tramway
host a gallery exhibition of a series of poems from
Cowpit Yowe running from 13th July through to 24th August
February
2008
Launched
new collection "Cowpit Yowe" on Tuesday 26th February.
January
2008
Helped
coordinate a 24 hour read of Edwin Morgan poems at The
Gallery of Modern Art in Glasgow handing out free copies
of a special edition of his poems.
2007
Highlights
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2007
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Read for the first time at StAnza
Scotland’s Poetry festival along side Daljit Nagra
and Jenni Daiches.Also helped
organise, hosted and performed at The 100 Poets Gathering
– an idea of mine to celebrate StAnza's 10th Anniversary.
"St
Mungo’s Mirrorball” is chosen as the only
poem in the controversial Demos publication “The
Dreaming City: Glasgow 2020 and the power of mass imagination”
The poem is also used as inspiration for an experimental
jazz piece “St Mungos Whispers” composed
and performed by jazz saxophonist Raymond MacDonald
and poet Aoife Mannix which came out on the Sub-Urban
Collectives CD “The Dreaming City”
Read
at the Glastonbury Festival in June performing on all
three days and launched “ Baxter’s old ram
sang the blues” on the Sunday there. Also became
the first poet ever to perform at The Connect Festival
at Inverary on Friday 31st August – 2nd September.
Read along side William Gault Bonnar in support of Glasgow’s
Commonwealth Games Bid.
The
Big Mistake is chosen as one of the 20
best Scottish Poems of 2007
2006 Highlights
In August 19th performed
at The Jazz Bar in Edinburgh as part of the Edinburgh
Fringe Festival
The
Moleman’s Apprentice is chosen as
one of the 20 best Scottish Poems of 2006
The
man who wanted to hug cows is chosen for
the anthology Scotland’s 100 Favourite Poems
The
new poetry collection “High
Auchensale” is launched. The collection is named
as one of the books of the year by The Herald and the
Sunday Herald (not bad for a pamphlet! )
2005 Highlights
The collection “Bovine Pastoral”
is chosen as the runner up in the Calumn MacDonald Memorial
Award
Queen
of the Sheep is chosen as the title poem
of the New Writing Scotland Anthology
2004 Highlights
Herd
is chosen as one of the 20 best Scottish poems of 2004
Balemartin Bard appears in “Bringing
back the Brightness” The best of 20 years of New
Writing Scotland.
Rhino City is commissioned for the architectural
poetry walk in The Block Architectural Festival
“ Bovine Pastoral” my first collection is
launched and sold out in 6 weeks
2003 Highlights
Wild Poppies comes 3rd in The Edinburgh
Fringe Poetry Competition and I get to read on the Fringe
as part of the prize.
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