Links to articles and poems which have been prize winners
Caffi Culture - October 2019 - Travel Writing
Peering at the menu behind the counter, I worry for a moment that I’ve succumbed to sudden onset macular degeneration .........more
Encounter in the Forest - October 2019 - Travel Writing
Our orange tent had tricked me with false sunrise. I shivered as mist lapped .........more
The Spirit of IY - September 2019 - Travel Writing
A skinny figure in an orange vest and straw trilby hurries towards me, hand outstretched...........more
Inside Track To Adventure - October 2009 - Travel Writing
Bald eagle, and oh, a wolf at 10 o’clock, I cry. Heads swivel; gasps of pleasure; clicks of cameras..........more
Costa Rica Is The Height Of Adventure - October 2010 - Travel Writing
The brochure had promised amazing diversity and we were not disappointed. .........more
Highland Morning - September 2011 - Poetry
A savage dawn: bruised
heather hides scree gash; howling
burn bleeds peaty clots .........more
Bon appetit - June 2012 - Poetry
She’s in love with Jamie’s cheeky chapattis,
he adores Nigella’s chocolate mousse; .........more
A Grand Irish Day - September 2012 - Travel Writing
The woman squinting through the narrow crack of Broom Cottage b & b's front door does not immediately strike us as the embodiment of Irish hospitality. .........more
Fish Out Of Water - September 2012 - Poetry
He’s swept along through the shipyard gates
in a tight shoal of welders, platers, caulkers
and boilermen to wash up, Jonah-like, .........more
Legacy - September 2012 - Poetry
Post- Olympics they’ve gone crazy in our sleepy little village
there’s not been this much action since the Vikings came to pillage; .........more
Lines Of Longitude - September 2012 - Poetry
In the warp and weft of her memory’s map,
fault-lines frayed through life’s unfolding, .........more
The Lisbon Riviera - March 2013 - Travel Writing
Waves lap at the doorways of the smart boutiques and dolphins frolic around the tables of the pavement cafes. .........more
Rough Guides Competition - April 2013 - Travel Writing
Rough Guides Competition. .........more