Main publications


Adrift, new and selected poems in English with Czech translations.(Periplum, Olomouc, 2007)

It’s About This, a poem log of a winter voyage to the StAnza Festival.  (Daemon, Glasgow, 2004)

Mackerel and Creamola, a collection of short stories with recipe-poems and children's drawings, is a rich portrayal of contemporary life in the Hebrides, drawing on the author's deep knowledge of sea lore. With a forward by Gerry Cambridge, recipes by Donald Urquhart, and an audio CD.  (pocketbooks/Polygon, Edinburgh, 2001) Contributor and co-editor for other titles in pocketbooks/Polygon series.

Green Waters, with Ian Hamilton Finlay and Graham Rich.  (pocketbooks/Polygon, Edinburgh, 1998)

PROVIDENCE II, poems and photographs.  (The Windfall Press, 1994)

'His main subjects - seas, winds, tides, shorelines and horizons - are expressed in precisely observed details of shape, colour, texture and movement that capture the spirit of a place as well as the topography in poem after poem, until voyaging becomes fact and metaphor in Stephen's work, a way of life and a way of interpreting life.' - James Aitchieson, The Herald

Morning Star Publications, many collaborations with Alec Finlay, from 1991.  (Held in many public and private collections, including National Library of Scotland and Museum of Modern Art, New York.)

Siud an t-Eilean (editor) anthology of poems and photographs.  (Acair, Stornoway, 1993)

Varying States of Grace, from small, perfectly reconstructed moments of island life to longer, loosely textured meditations on European politics, from stories of family to songs of romantic adventure, the care and compassion of Stephen's eye find a state of grace in every situation, his unerring but quiet technique marking out their variations.  (Polygon, Edinburgh, 1989)

'Stephen writes well of the bare, islanded north and its sea-scapes, its loneliness and stark, sporadic collisions with geopolitical industrial-technological realities, of the view from the top of the world.'  David McDuff in Stand.

12 poems  (Poetry Australia, 1984)

Malin, Hebrides, Minches, collaboration with the photographer Sam Maynard.
Poems and photos published internationally and exhibited at The Third Eye Centre, Glasgow. Associated performances with Sean O' Rourke (JSD band, Alba, The Keltz) and Savourna Stevenson. (Dangaroo Press, Denmark, 1983)