WORDS

A selection of published writing and reviews. Wild Words columns for Lochaber Times are also archived here.


Prose

Caught by the River: Looking Forwards: Ravens in Winter (2024); Seeds of Neglect (2023); The Illusion of Motion (2021); The Raven’s Call (2019)

Also for Caught by the River, a bimonthly column with Annie Worsley Croft, Coast and Hill: Letters from the Northwest Highlands

The Guardian Country Diary: The hard, heavy work of harvesting seaweed (Jun, 2025) Loch and landfill, cheek by jowl (Oct, 2024) Billions of mussel larvae call for 15,000 metres of rope (May, 2022); These grazing pigs are no match for wild rushes (Oct, 2021)

Gutter Magazine: Ant (Issue 19); Motion Sickness (Issue 24)

Lone Women in Flashes of Wilderness: Baba Yaga (2019)

The Nature Library (Exhibition with Narture): Bluebells (2023)

Paperboats Zine: The Kinship of Ravens (2024)

The Same Havoc Anthology (Selkie Press): House of Ravens (2020)

Stravaig, Journal of Scottish Centre for Geopoetics: Evaporation (2019)


Poetry

Northwords Now: Suith In (Issue 36); Woman in a Field of Autumn Crocus (Issue 38)

Fresher Writing Anthology, Vol 5: Gull (2019)


Reviews

Caught by the River: Groundbreakers, Chantal Lyons (Bloomsbury, 2024)

Caught by the River: Windswept, Annie Worlsey (William Collins, 2023)

Northwords Now: Highland Book Prize Shortlist 2022 – Highland Book Prize Shortlist 2023

The Oban Times: A Line Above the Sky, Helen Mort (Ebury, 2022) – Other Worlds: An Anthology of Scottish Island Poems (Birlinn, 2022)

Imagined Spaces: the light we cannot see, Anne Casey (Salmon Poetry, 2021)