https://youtu.be/03VLRr1UoNQ Here’s a short video on my poem F Fae. The poem deals with the reality and consequences of educational underachievement. I also mixed the music. Over the last while I’ve been trying to add spoken work to EDM. The original poems was 14 verses long, but through the advice of legendary record producer Rick … Continue reading F Fae – A Commentary on Educational underachievement (video)
Ulster Scots
Climbing Mountains (is the easy bit) – Hard Truths For Writers
Mountaineer - image from WordPress It’s like climbing a mountain; all alone and totally untrained. You learn as you go; you work out what to do; you learn how to use the equipment. Then you wing it; you get lucky; you take hard routes, easy routes, bizarre routes. Eventually you traverse the final assent, you … Continue reading Climbing Mountains (is the easy bit) – Hard Truths For Writers
Peep Frae Your Mind (& Lock Doon Poyams) Audio Book
Peep Frae Your Mind & Lock Doon Poyams This isn’t going to turn the world upside down, but today I’m very proud, I’ve accomplished something I’ve always wanted to achieve - an audiobook! This has been neither easy nor straightforward. Like everything during this writing and publishing carry on, I’ve had to do it myself, … Continue reading Peep Frae Your Mind (& Lock Doon Poyams) Audio Book
Residual Ulster Scots
The following article was written in January 2021. This is before the publication of ‘Lock Doon Poyams.’ Over the last while I’ve been suffering from a wild dose of imposter syndrome. Two things have done it. If you would have told me a year ago I’d be on the radio [on Kintra] reading one of … Continue reading Residual Ulster Scots
James Finlay Bruce – interview
Tales Frae the life o James Finlay Bruce What inspired you to write Tales Frae the life o James Finlay Bruce? I’ve always been interested in place, in history, in what people do. In Northern Ireland there’s two great living history museums, the Folk and Transport Museum in Cultra and the Ulster American folk park … Continue reading James Finlay Bruce – interview
Underachievement?
Underachievement is an oft quoted but little explained term, my understanding is that it is achieving less than you were capable of. I underachieved at school, that is I achieved less than I should have. Looking back I know full well that I did not get what I could have but did get what I … Continue reading Underachievement?
Prison or Art College
I have written this premeditatedly, you know beforehand, that’s not a good thing to do, to premeditate is to imagine, it is to imagine what will have happened, and you don’t know what’s going to happen. At least on election night politicians only have to write two speeches, one for winning and one for losing! … Continue reading Prison or Art College
I Enjoyed School…but
It is one thing to have fun, you know, enjoy yourself, but it’s another thing to be a total pain in the backside. When I talked about enjoying school, I think I really meant I was a total pain in the backside. Dyslexia is embarrassing, well I mean I found dyslexia embarrassing, having to read … Continue reading I Enjoyed School…but
Why do I not write in Ulster Scots more often?
I have a method of writing that I need to use, if I am going to write words on paper that correspond with the words in my head. Well, I have a method of proof reading and correction that eventually leads to something reasonably coherent. I write in the full awareness of being dyslexic, this … Continue reading Why do I not write in Ulster Scots more often?
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