Films
A Boat Retold - co-producer, with an Lanntair of a film by Sean Martin and Louise Milne, documenting the rebuilding of a 1912 boat, from the keel up. Featured in Tip of the Tongue Festival, Isle of Jura 2012.
photo Nick Bowles
Confluence – 3 films, with Andy Mackinnon, Taigh Chearsabhagh, 2008 (featured at Black Isle Words, 2012)
The Sked Crew– from a Theatre Hebrides performance directed by Alison Peebles.
Filmed with Neil MacConnell, Sail Loft 1, Stornoway, 2006.
Videopoems – series of videos with texts commissioned for StAnza Festival, 2004
Screenings StAnza Festival . April 2007 ;
Poetry without Borders . Czech Republic . Oct 07
Running Time- two works included in retrospective of Scottish Artists' film, Dean Gallery, Edinburgh, 2010. (reviews in The Guardian and The Observer. )
including netmending - a video by Ian Stephen, made with Alex Patience
Plays
The Sked Crew - 15 minute drama commissioned by Theatre Hebrides, directed Alison Peebles 2006. A development week to expand to a full-length play was funded by the National Theatre of Scotland 2007.
Brazil 12 Scotland nil - a commission for Birds Of Paradise, directed by Morven Gregor, toured in 2005.
Out Of The Jar - for Minatures, a Highland Festival touring production, 2004.
Seven Hunters - a Highland Festival commission, directed by Gerry Mulgrew with original music by Johnnie Hardy and set/projections by Craig Mackay, touring production, 2003.
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Broadcast work
The Norge and Rockall - contributor to Radio Scotland's documentaries 2012.
Out of Doors. Poetry readings. (Radio Scotland, January 2010)
National Poetry Day – reading tour central Scotland, with Tom Pow and Ken Cockburn. (STV)
Voyagers – series of broadcasts, poetry and conversations, from Broad Bay. (Radio Scotland, 1998)
Poems on Poetry Now (Radio 3), Radio Scotland, Grampian TV
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Work translated/Set to music
St Kilda Fades
series of lyrics set to music by David P Graham due to be published, Berlin, 2012
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In development - collaboration with improvisational musician Giles Perring and others.
The Read Bed literary stage, collaborating with novelist and pianist Peter Urpeth and Scottish free jazz saxophonist Raymond MacDonald. (Belladrum Tartan Heart Festival, Aug 2009).
Westlich der Zeit/Kilda Lyrics. Music by David P Graham, performed with choirs, soloists and dancer at the Rheinisches LandesMuseum, Bonn and Burgerhaus Stollwerck, Cologne, Oct 2007.
Writers from the Scottish Islands, 9th Salon Internationale du Livre Insulaire, Oessant, 2007.
Five Fish, settings to music by David P Graham, performed Bonn, Germany, 2006.
Snipe Shadows, samples on Hardland, Martyn Bennett, Martin Low, Cuillin Music, 2000.
Lyrics from Malin, Hebrides… by Diethelm Zuckmantel, performed Dusseldorf, Germany, 1993.