2004

January 2004
> Radio-play, The Dark Island, scheduled for broadcast on BBC Radio 4.

> Novel, Psychoraag, Published (Black and White Publishing).

March 2004
> The White Cliffs, to be published by the Sandstone Press in a book of three novellas (the other two being by Isla Dewar and Des Dillon). This book will be aimed primarily at readers who wish to enhance their literacy skills.

>Appearing in Aberdeen on World Book Day.

> Scots version of mediaeval Iranian poet, Hafiz Shirazi’s Aleph poem, for A Smoky Smirr o Rain (Itchycoo).

2005

March 2005
> 'Freedom Spring: Ten Years On' launched at Glasgow City Chambers, to celebrate a decade of the end of apartheid in South Africa.

May 2005
> Launch of web novella, 'The Aerodrome' on www.sandstonepress.com This is a trans-cultural love story set during World War II.

> 'The White Cliffs' staged at Oran Mor, Glasgow to great audience response. See review.

June 2005
> Recording programmes for Hopscotch Films and Radio Magnetic/Scottish PEN.

> Launch of 'The Hand That Sees', poetry anthology commissioned by the Scottish Poetry Library to commemorate the 500th anniversary of the founding of the Royal College of Surgeons, Edinburgh.

June/July 2005
> Kiev, Ukraine: 'Writing Europe' Conference. Will deliver a lecture at this conference

August 14th and 19th 2005
> Edinburgh International Book Festival:

August/September 2005
> Singapore Writers' Festival

September 2005
> Pakistani Film Festival in Scotland

30th September 2005
> Wigton Book Fair

Other work

> Salman Rushdie’s novel, ‘Shalimar the Clown’, reviewed (The Independent newspaper, London, 2005).

> Dance the Guns to Silence  (Flipped Eye Publishing, 2005). A poem celebrating the life of Ken Saro-Wiwa, ‘The Oracle of Easter Monday’.

>The One O’clock Gun (2005). A Pagan prose-poem, ‘The Hour of the Witch’.

> Africa-centred but globally-performed choral piece for World AIDS Day Project Paradisum.

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