My writing life has been very busy so here are just the headlines of the last few months…
Seamus Heaney Award for New Writing: I was a finalist. Award ceremony 31st August at the Seamus Heaney Home Place, Bellaghy.
I have been completing my collection, ‘Exposure’, 75 poems on War, Media and Democracy, due in March 2026 from Culture and Democracy Press.
An article on the ancient poem, ‘Stabat Mater’ for Conversations journal.
I am editing the Arts section of issue 499 of Fortnight magazine, due October :
| Broadcasting and Devolution in the UK | Dr Phil Ramsey et al |
| Healing Through Photography | Belfast Exposed team |
| Raymond Warren composer appreciation | Edward Davies |
| Examining the gap in troubles fiction from a rural female Unionist/Ulster-Scots perspective | Dr Adeline Henry |
| The Brontes In Ireland: A Reappraisal | Uel Wright |
| Fieldnotes from Celtic Palestine, 3 Irish & 1 Welsh writers/artist on Palestine | Prof Diarmit Mac Giolla Chriost. |
| REVIEWS | |
| Philip Stephens – ‘These Divided Isles: Britain and Ireland, Past and Future’ | Prof Richard Wyn Jones |
| Liam Carson poetry ‘Belfast Twilight’ | Alexandra Corrin-Tachibana |
| Martina Devlin’s novel ‘Charlotte’ | Prof Melissa Fegan |
The Storms Journal, issue 5: my poem ‘Maksim Levin’s Credo’.
These Pages Sing, Summer issue: my poem ‘On Rathlin’.
Reading at Button Press’s event at the Farset Hotel, Belfast 26th August.
My poem, ‘By Ordinary Means’ selected for the Performance Trophy at North Coast Writers festival, Portrush. Event 11th October.
Two poems accepted for the Iolo Morgannwg anthology, marking the 200th anniversary of his death.
Poetry reading at Corrymeela International Conference, 18th July.
Poem in ‘Umbra Sumus’ edition of Abridged poetry magazine.