Crafty Green Poet

My new website is now live - you can find it here ! It outlines my plans for freelance work in environmental communications and creative wor...

I've recently been working on a few ideas around offering creative workshops and environmental communications services. I've set up ...

So I've finished NaNoWriMo early, I had written my 50000 words by midmorning today. It felt like a real achievement! It's been hard ...

I'm reading short stories and poetry at Havers and Blethers , Captains Bar, Edinburgh at 7.30 on Monday 1 and Thursday 4 August. I took ...

Just to let everyone know that I now have a Paypal account and wherever you are in the world you can now order a signed copy of my chapbook ...

You can now book for my two summer courses at the Office of Lifelong Learning, University of Edinburgh! 10am - 4pm Monday 1 August Creative ...

I will be teaching Introduction to the Water of Leith again this summer for the Office of Lifelong Learning at University of Edinburgh. The ...

WWF and Sky are working together to help save one billion trees in the Amazon rainforest and protect around three million hectares from def...

Biggar Poetry Garden is at the top end of the High Street in Biggar , a market town in South Lanarkshire . The Garden has been created by Bi...

Wikio put together a list of the Top UK Environment blogs every month. The rankings are put together by Wikio a news and blogs search engine...

There has been a fair bit of good news on the environmental front over the last couple of days: The UK Government seems to have given up on ...

photo by Elise Le Mer, Whole Earth Foods Here's a photo of me in the recording studio speaking to a local radio station during my recent...

I'm off to London today to do some radio interviews for Whole Earth Foods as part of my prize in their recent Good Life competition. I t...

This year has been designated International Year of Forests . The United Nations General Assembly declared 2011 as the International Year of...

I was delighted that my Open Planet Idea was shortlisted, you can read my post about Open Planet here and you can read more about my short...

The UK Government is planning sweeping cuts to public spending. Many of the cuts affect wildlife and the environment. For example there are ...

New Caledonian Woodlands is a not for profit organisation and social enterprise in Scotland that exists to enhance the natural environment, ...

We're going away for a few days to Montrose. We'll be doing some birdwatching at Montrose Basin and then I'm reading at this po...

I've just started teaching a course on Environmental Writing for The University of Edinburgh's Office of Lifelong Learning . A coup...

We've got a general election coming up in the UK. I'm not going to say too much about this, as I'm not a political commentator a...