Category Archives: Poetry

Countryside – with Nicola Weir (and me!)

On the back of the publication of Under the Changing Skies, I was interviewed by Nicola Weir for Radio Ulster’s Countryside. The programme will be broadcast tomorrow at 2pm, but it’s already available on BBC Sounds if you want to … Continue reading

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Bright Wings

So now for that magical encounter that I first wrote about a couple of weeks ago, here. Today’s Country Diary is the big reveal. Chaffinches have always been one of my favourite species. Indeed, I previously wrote here, they were … Continue reading

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