CREATIVE CONNECTIONS

AT LOCAL (SHETLAND) LEVEL:

Shetland Arts, from 2001, as Shetland Arts’ Trust & its local Writers Groups & Wordplay, since its creation.

Shetland Museum & Archives and the Shetland Library, through various projects, events & readings.

through Serpentine Drama & Writers, based in Lerwick (2011-12) 

with Jacqui Clark & the N(ational)T(heatre) S(cotland) through IGNITION [2012-13]

Open Door Drama, based in Waas, under the direction of Izzy Swanson

with Paula Moss Photography 

with Shetland Handspun and JuSt Shetland  (2013) 

and with the Islesburgh Photographic Club

 AT SCOTTISH LEVEL:

The Scottish Centre for Geopoetics, under the direction of Norman Bissell

With Ryan Van Winkle & Steven J Fowler on a project called Auld Enemies (2014) 

 …Write2Write Project with Pauline Vanderbilt

and through Ruth Macdougall’s “Humblyband” Project

with Anne Brodie and Lindsay Sekulowicz as crew members…

With Timespan – Artists’ Community (Dec 2012)

 With Caithness based artist Joanne B Kaar  via the Spinning a Yarn project through Spring Fling Open Studio project (2013)

 

AT NORDIC LEVEL:

within my work’s roost: Nordland Publishing (since Dec 2015) as a poet & writer … And further with Norway, 

 

 through NYBAKK as photographer in for the floating museum.

 

MORE, AT INTERNATIONAL LEVEL:

Redbubble (Photographers & Artists’ community)

With Florida-based Vagabondage Press through the Battered Suitcase 

Poemata Magazine, Canada, with former Canadian Poetry Association (CPA) President Donna Allard, as co-Editor (2008-10) 

Broken Jaw Press  2012, New Brunswick, Canada

The Global Twitter Community Poetry Project curated by Michelle Vinci in Vancouver, BC, Canada.

 with Australia’s Lissa Kathe, as co-founder & lyricist for the collaborative Garden2Garden Project  (2008) 

 

 With Benoit Bordeleau from La Traversée, Atelier québéquois de Géopoétique  via Twitter, Hoche’élague and Victoria Welby‘s Dérives (2012, ongoing)

Polishing small stones at global level with Fiona Robyn & Kaspalita Thomson through A BLACKBIRD SINGS  Writing Our Way Home (2012)

 With

 James MackenzieArt as part of collaborative work for ArtiPeeps‘ Christmas Project (2012) – poetry & visual art, as  well as collaborating with Lili Morgan and to Transformations – the ambitious re-writing of Ovid’s Metamorphoses – big project!

THE NINE REALMS‘ Project (2014-15) within ARTIPEEPS, where we mingled with Viking Gods and Mythology. Fab collaboration with fellow poets & writers, artists, both visual and musical.