Publications
- Westray (zine): 2022, Easter Road Press
- Deep Wheel Orcadia: A Novel (book): 2021, Picador / PanMacmillan
- Out of Existence (art print): 2021, OVER/AT
- Not Going Back to Normal (book, as editor): 2021, Collective Gallery
- 14 Ways to Watch a Film (zine): 2021, Alchemy Festival
- Lines (zine): 2021, Easter Road Press
- Scenes (zine): 2020, Easter Road Press
- Wages for Transition (zine): 2019, Dundee Contemporary Arts
- Moon, Sun and All Things (zine): 2019, Easter Road Press
- Stim (zine): 2019, Easter Road Press
- Some Definitions (zine): 2019, Easter Road Press
- The Games (book): 2018, OutSpoken Press. Shortlisted for the Edwin Morgan Poetry Award and the Saltire Prize for Best Collection.
- New Minstrelsy of the Scottish Border (pamphlet / website): 2018, commissioned by The Common Guild.
- Travellers’ Lexicon (artbook / website): 2017, commissioned by Edinburgh Internatonal Book Festival / British Council Canada
- Trump/Pattinson (pamphlet / website): 2017
- Casual Games for City Walkers (art print / website): 2016, commissioned by Winchester City Council
- 14 Ways to Reread a Favourite Novel (pamphlet): 2016, commissioned by Now Play This
- Raik (interactive text): 2015
- Funding a Ritual (pamphlet): 2015, commissioned by Artsadmin
- Casual Games for Casual Hikers (art print): 2015, commissioned by Nevis Land Partnership
- Visa Wedding (pamphlet): Stewed Rhubarb 2013 – SOLD OUT
- Oam (pamphlet): Stewed Rhubarb 2014, commissioned by Govanhill Baths
- Farmform (postcard series / website): 2014, commissioned by Crichton Carbon Centre
- Tonguit (full collection): Freight Books 2015; republished by Stewed Rhubarb 2018. Shortlisted for the Edwin Morgan Poetry Award and the Forward Foundation’s Felix Dennis Prize for Best First Collection.
- Drone (sequence): Vagabond Voices 2015
- Farmform (postcard series / website): 2014, commissioned by Crichton Carbon Centre
- Oam (pamphlet): Stewed Rhubarb 2014, commissioned by Govanhill Baths
- Visa Wedding (pamphlet): Stewed Rhubarb 2013
Awards
- Saltire Prize for Best Collection: Shortlist (2019)
- Forward Prize for Best First Collection: Shortlist (2016)
- Edwin Morgan Poetry Award: Shortlist (2014 and 2016)
- IdeasTap National Poetry Competition: 1st Place (2012)
- BBC Radio 4 Scotland Slam, 1st Place (2009)
Shows
Deep Wheel Orcadia
poetry and music – outer space, islands, language
November 2018: scratch performed at Oy Festival, Papa Westray
August 2022: full show performed at Edinburgh International Book Festival
Drone
Publication, multimedia spoken word – violence, globalisation, anxiety, work
March 2015: First performed at Buzzcut, Glasgow
August 2015: Short run at the Edinburgh Fringe
September 2015: Scottish Storytelling Centre
August 2016: Edinburgh International Book Festival
November 2016: Shoreditch Town Hall
April-June 2019: Tron Theatre, Glasgow; Camden People’s Theatre, London; Sound Archive, Kirkwall; Gable End, Hoy; Traverse Theatre, Edinburgh
August 2019: Summerhall, Edinburgh Fringe, Made in Scotland Showcase.
November 2019: Verb Festival, Wellington; Basement Theatre, Auckland.
Six Pennies for Paradise
Live game – public play, utopia, magical thinking
May 2016: Commissioned by Now Play This
Everything I Bought and How It Made Me Feel
Endurance writing blog, performance lecture – consumerism, anxiety, data collection
September 2014: Scratch produced by NTI Latvia
March 2015: Full show premiere at Sprint, CPT, London
June 2015: 2 Degrees Festival, London
February – March 2016: UK Tour: HUB, Leeds; Lawrence Batley Theatre, Huddersfield, University of Edinburgh; Glad Café, Glasgow; Stage 3 at Northern Stage, Newcastle
April 2018: The Lemon Tree, Aberdeen
Funding A Ritual
Publication, performance score, live ritual – money, the arts industry, magical thinking
November 2015: Inaugural performance commissioned for Catalyst programme
February 2016: Text performed for Resonance FM fundraiser, London
SMASHY SMASHY
One-to-one, public intervention, live ritual – rage, urban design, catharsis
October 2014: Inaugural perforance at Arches LIVE, Glasgow;
November 2015: Beta Public, London
BDSMV
Multimedia spoken word, ritual performance – madness, bondage, psychiatric violence
July 2014: Scratch performance, BARK, Edinburgh
I Want to Blow Up the Palace of Holyroodhouse
Performance research project, talk, live explosion – rage, free speech, terrorism, political art
October 2013– April 2014: Live research sessions at the Forest Café, Buzzcut Glasgow and Sprint London
November 2014: Talk and final explosion at SPILL National Platform, Ipswich
What We Owe
One-to-one – debt, money, ecopolitics
October 2012: Arches LIVE, Glasgow
June 2013: 2 Degrees, London
August 2013: Forest Fringe, Edinburgh
November 2013: NTI Latvia
March 2014: Sprint, London
May 2014: Bunker Slovenia
Class Act
Live game, performance lecture – class war, money, public play
May 2012: Ovalhouse Seed Commission
December 2012: Hatch, Nottingham
March 2013: Sprint, London; Buzzcut, Glasgow
November 2014: Dialogue Festival, London
Old Things and Odds & Ends
All I Want for Christmas is the Downfall of Globalised Late Capitalism, Forest Fringe (August 2014); A Room Of One’s Own & Tilting at Windbags (Whisper Down the Mountain, Edinburgh, June 2014); Tax Return, Forest Café, Edinburgh (January 2014); A Game of Many Stories, Scottish Book Trust (December 2012); SAFEWORD, Glasgay! (October 2012); A Party for the Socially Awkward, Edinburgh (May 2012); This is not a riot, The Yard, Buzzcut, Banshee Labyrinth, CrisisArt Tuscany (October 2011 – June 2012); PROPERTY&THEFT, Tollcross Community Centre, the Glue Factory (March 2011)
Prose
- The Account in Extra Teeth 5 (summer 2022)
- Altars of Transition in The Modern Craft (summer 2022)
- The Scots Language is a Science Fiction Project in Scottish Writing After Devolution (spring 2022)
- Social Contagion in Gutter 23 (summer 2020)
Individual Poems
- Malison in Re:creation (summer 2022)
- May a transsexual hear a bird? in Penguin’s 100 Queer Poems (summer 2022)
- Why do we not see everywhere innumerable transitional forms? for National Library of Scotland (spring 2022)
- Visa Wedding in Other Worlds: Am Anthology of Scottish Island Poetry (spring 2022)
- Living for National Centre for Writing (winter 2021)
- May a transsexual hear a bird? in Cambridge Literary Review (summer 2021)
- Materials in Shoreline of Infinity (summer 2021)
- Janice in Hoax (winter 2020)
- Abolish the Police (ten poems) in We Want It All (winter 2020)
- Abolish the Police (ten poems) in Untitled 3 (autumn 2020)
- Them! in Cambridge Literary Review 12 (autumn 2020)
- Glyphsprache in sync 52 (winter 2019)
- Volume in Islands are but Mountains (autumn 2019)
- Four poems from Deep Wheel Orcadia in Makar/Unmakar (autumn 2019)
- moon, sun and all things in The Stand: Ecopoetics (autumn 2019)
- Abolish the Police x 4 in Poetry Wales (summer 2019)
- why i am not in the book in Why Poetry? (spring 2019)
- wether in Iilwimi Lipsing (winter 2018)
- Two poems in Multiverse (autumn 2018)
- We Are Rain in No Robot No! (autumn 2018)
- The Worker in New Writing Scotland 36 (autumn 2018)
- why i am not in the book in Why Poetry? (autumn 2018)
- Bloom in And Other Poems (summer 2018)
- Four poems in The Scores (summer 2018)
- Four poems in Irish Pages 10.1 (summer 2018)
- Psalm at Little Red Tarot (winter 2018)
- Six poems in Bad Kid Catullus (autumn 2017)
- Offer in Return Flight (summer 2017)
- Vouels in minnmouth (summer 2017)
- Bastart Hingower Ghazal in Nort (spring 2017)
- Two poems in Birdbook 2 (spring 2017)
- Six poems in Northwords Now (spring 2017)
- Five translations in Gutter 16 (spring 2017)
- HRH in Umbrellas of Edinburgh (autumn 2016)
- All the verbs from Glasgow City Council’s… in Aiblins (summer 2016)
- The Gay Gordons in Scotia Extremis (online spring 2016 / print summer 2019
- Fae Otter Bairns in ebban an flowan (spring 2016)
- Tae a Sex-Toy in Gutter 14 (spring 2016)
- Fae Stefanoforia in Bridging the Continental Divide (spring 2015)
- Waffle House Crush in Best Scottish Poems 2015
- Ex Ist in New Boots and Pantisocracies (online spring 2015 / print spring 2019)
- Three poems in Be the First to Like This (autumn 2014)
- Three poems in Be the First to Like This (autumn 2014)
- Maeshowe and Questionnaire in Scotia Nova (summer 2014)
- Alpe d’Huez in Tour de Vers (summer 2014)
- Gloamin and haudin the kenmark o hairst in A Bird Is Not A Stone (summer 2014)
- Failure in Fake Poems (spring 2014)
- Strong Female Character in The Rag (spring 2014)
- Solidarity in Naked Among Thistles (winter 2014)
- Your Strengths in National Collective Zine (winter 2014)
- This is a customer security announcement and Showtime in Valve 3 (autumn 2013)
- Instructions for behaviour at border control in Human Rights Poetry (autumn 2013)
- Five poems about drones in Gutter 09 (autumn 2013)
- Brave in New Writing Scotland 31 (autumn 2013), The List (spring 2014), Inspired by Independence (summer 2014)
- Poem in which all the nouns, verbs and adjectives are entries from the Wikipedia page “List of Fantasy Worlds” in Poems in Which 3 (summer 2013)
- Aye But at National Collective (summer 2013)
- Happy New Year in Blind Poetics 2 (summer 2013)
- Photo of Maud Wagner in Verse Kraken 1 (summer 2013)
- Brave on IndieFeed Performance Poetry (summer 2013)
- if you measure the distance between the teeth they’ll tell you in Clinic 3 (spring 13)
- You don’t ever have to lose in Fit To Work (spring 2013)
- Four poems about drones in Neon 33 (winter 2012/13)
- Poem in which a drone watches a US presidential debate from a Travelodge off the M18 near Doncaster in Poems in Which 2 (winter 2012/13)
- Give Up Art in Art and Activism (autumn 2012)
- Two poems in A Blackbird Sings (summer 2012)
- Panic… in Antiphon Three (summer 2012)
- Two poems at a handful of small stones (spring 2012)
- Piercings in Magma 52: Taking off the mask (spring 2012)
- Two semi-automatic poems in anything anymore anywhere: summer 2011
- Dole haiku in Haiku Scotland 29 (spring 2011)
- An experiment was carried out in Drey 2: Random (spring 2011)
- Two Poems in Pank 6.07: London Calling (spring 2011)
- also student journals, self-published napkins, &c. &c.
- and I probably missed some
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