12-15 October 2023 – World Slam Poetry Organisation world slam poetry Finals, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. details to follow!
Fri 1st September 2023, Born Lippy Stage at Lindisfarne Festival, festival runs 31 August – 3 September.
Thurs 27-Sat 29 July 2023 running Verb Garden Stage at Belladrum Tartan Heart Festival.
Sat 11 March 2023 StAnza Poetry Festival St Andrews, 11:30-12:30 at the Laidlaw Music Centre, reading with acclaimed Gaelic poet Martin McIntyre https://byretheatre.com/shows/stanza-23-reading-hamish-macdonald-and-martin-macintyre/
Friday 10 Feb 2023 at 7:30 pm Loud Poets Showcase with Bodhan Piasecki, Katharine MacFarlane and Mairi McCall at the Scottish Storytelling Centre, High St, Edinburgh https://scottishstorytellingcentre.online.red61.co.uk/event/913:4611/
8-11 December 2022 – European Slam Poetry Finals, at La Galleria delle Arti, San Lorenzo district, Rome https://www.worldpoetryslam.org/european-2022/
Sat 24 September 2022 Scots Language Awards, Gardyne Theatre Dundee 7pm, nominee and performance.
Thur 22 Sept 2022 Roving Poet at St Duthac Book Festival Tain
Sat 17 September 2022 Licketyspit Storyplay Children’s Festival, Dassie Green, Glasgow Green 11am-4pm.
Saturday 20th August 2022: Word Up! at the Fringe, the Stand at the New Town Theatre 2:50 pm with Atilla the Stockbroker, Calum Baird, Kate Smurthwaite and Janette Ayachi.
Mon 15th August 2022, Wurds & Burds at Argonaut Books, Leith Walk, Edinburgh with Scotland Street Press.
Belladrum Tartan Heart Festival Friday and Saturday 29 and 30th July 2022 at the Burke & Hair stage 15:30-16:00
World Slam Poetry Finals/Coupe du Monde, Paris 23-29 May 2022 link here
Thursday April 22-Thursday 27 October 2022 – The Highland Malt Whisky Experience at MacGregor’s Bar, Inverness. Stories, songs, history and humour with five quality drams.
Sat March 12 2022 2-5pm Scottish Slam Poetry Finals, Britannia Panopticon Music Hall, Glasgow.
Sun 20 February 2022 Scottish Slam Poetry qualifier, Dram, Woodlands Road, Glasgow 7pm.
Sat 4 September 2021 – Roving Poet on the streets of Nairn throughout the day as part of the Nairn Book & Arts Festival. … Festival Link
Sun 15 Aug 2021: Eden Court Under Canvas, spoken word with Colin Bramwell and guests, 2pm and 5pm … Link
Fri Aug 13 2021 Pop Out Perth, support act for top Scottish comedian Billy Kirkwood, St Paul’s Square Perth at 7pm … Link
Sat July 31-Sun Aug 1 2021: Endospell Festival, Tore, Inverness-shire. Performing song and poetry at the Endospell Drive-In Festival … Festival Link
18th March 2020 Launch of ‘Wilson’s Ornithology & Burds in Scots’ with Paul Walton, Head of Species and Habitat at RSPB Scotland. At the National Library of Scotland, King George IV Bridge, Edinburgh, EH1 1EW. The book features ornithological poems in Scots alongside the illustrations of Alexander Wilson (1766-1813), founding father of American ornithology. Published by Scotland Street Press. Due to Coronavirus this event is postponed until further notice.
September 2019: Roving Poet at Nairn Book & Arts Festival. Festival Link
11th August 2019: Storytelling for Wilderness Scotland (Subscribed event).
1-3rd August 2019: Belladrum Festival. Festival Link
17 April 2019: Scottish Poetry Library, Edinburgh Poetry with Haemophilia Scotland for World Haemophilia Day. From 6pm with further details TBC.
1 April 2019, Byre Theatre St Andrews: Papusza’s ‘Tears of Blood’ Impact Event, with St Andrews University, 09:00-16:30.
10 March 2019. Open Slam at the Tron Theatre Cafe Bar, Sunday 14:00-16:30 hosted by Robin Cairns. Event Info here: https://www.facebook.com/events/324108861546420/ – Slam Winner, now finalist at Scottish Slam Championships, Tron Theatre, January 2020.
6 March 2019. Storytelling for Wilderness Scotland (Subscribed Event).
25th January 2019: Burns Night at MacGregor’s, Inverness details TBC
Friday 11th January 2019: Market Bar, Inverness 10:45-11:15 pm supporting Table for Four, through till late.
Thursday 10th January 2019: Velocity Cafe, Inverness, with Dougie Burns and other guests.
Saturday 8th December 2018, Market Bar, Inverness, an afternoon of original song with Daniel Herzov and Darwin’s Daughter. (From 3pm). Link
Friday 30th November 2018: Bastard Wordiness at the Tooth & Claw, Inverness, Poetry and compering Spoken Word, with Joseph’s Cramp and Butterscotch in aid of Mikey’s Line Link
Saturday 27th October 2018: MacGregor’s Halloween Night, Storytelling, Poetry & Song (From 8 pm): Link
Saturday 13th October 2018: Leftfest Inverness at the Tooth & Claw, Spoken Word & Song in aid of Highland Foodbank: Link
Friday 12th October 2018: Support Act at MacGregor’s Folk and Acoustic Club, Inverness, with Iain MacFarlane and Ingrid Henderson. (From 9pm) Link
October 5th 2018. Storytelling at Aldourie Castle. (Subscribed event).
Friday 14th September: Roving poet at Nairn Book & Arts Festival, venues & times to be confirmed. Saturday 15th September: Poetry Platform, The Little Theatre 11:30 am – 1:30 pm with Em Strang and Diane Hendry. Festival Link
September 8th 2018. MacGregor’s Bar Inverness. Song and story. (Subscribed event).
August 23rd 2018. Storytelling at Aldourie Castle. (Subscribed event)
August 3rd & 4th 2018. Belladrum Festival. Performance of ‘Hey Argentina’, a one man play about cousin Alan Grant’s journey to follow Scotland in the 1978 World Cup in Argentina. At The Temple on Fri 3rd August at 17:30, and at The Verb Garden on Sat 4th Aug at 18:30.
May 2018 – BBC Radio Scotland broadcast of ‘The Scot Who Stayed in Argentina’. Writing and presenting documentary on cousin Alan Grant’s amazing 1978 trip to follow Scotland in the World Cup in Argentina, returning to Scotland several years later with a story to tell of football, love and life under a brutal military dictatorship.
January/February 2018 – Working with the History Department at St Andrews University on the English and Scots translations of Papusza’s ‘Tears of Blood’, the definitive Roma poem on the Porajmos i.e. genocide perpetrated by the Nazis against the Roma people in Eastern Europe.
Thursday 21st December 2017 – Velocity Cafe, Inverness, evening here
Wed 29th November 2017 – at the Tooth and Claw, Inverness. Link here:
Thursday 3-Saturday 5th August 2017: Belladrum Festival. Appearances at the Potting Shed, Thursday 3rd August 18:30-19:00 ; At the Burke & Hare Stage Friday 4th and Saturday 5th August 15:00-15:30, and at the Verb Garden Saturday 5th August 19:45-20:30. Belladrum Tartan Heart Festival link here:
Saturday 24th June 2017: Northern Roots Festival, Bogbain Farm Inverness, Moose Mobile stage at 3:45 p.m. Event info here
Friday 16th June 2017: Scottish Anarcho Folkfest, Pluscarden, Morayshire. Appearing at 7 p.m., event runs Friday 16-Sunday 18th June. Event info here:
Friday 27th May 2017: Belladrum Potting Shed previews, Guitar Pull at Hootenanny, Church St. Inverness with Dylan Tierney and Susannah Wolfe. From 7:30 p.m. event info here:
Wednesday 3rd May: Tradfest event at the National Library of Scotland with the great singer/songwriter Karine Polwart and special guest Kirsty Law. Song and slam poetry brings together the Scots tongue from traditional roots to its contemporary voice. Event info here:
Monday 27th March: Headlining at Last Ever Monday at Rio, Rio Cafe, Partick. Due to the cafe closing, Glasgow’s legendary poetry event is coming to an end (though not entirely) after ten successful years which has inspired and encouraged some of Scotland’s best performance work of recent times. From April 2015 Last Monday will reconvene at Waterstone’s (Wee Rocks!) bookshop, Sauchiehall Street, Glasgow.
Saturday 14th January 2017: Finalist: Scottish Slam Poetry Finals, Tron Theatre, Glasgow
Thursday 5th January 2017. Featured Guest, Old North Inn Open Mic Night, Kirkhill, Facebook event page HERE:
21st Dec. 2016 at 13:30: The Spirit of Invergordon. BBC Radio Scotland; Writing and presenting a new half hour documentary, produced by Louise Yeoman for BBC Radio Scotland. The programme tells the story of the mutiny of the Royal Navy’s Atlantic Fleet at Invergordon in 1931, tracing the effects of its aftermath through personal family stories and the emergence of new MI5 files relating to the incident.
Friday evening 2nd December 2016 at 7:30 pm: Songs From A Jar. Launch of debut CD of 10 new songs at La Tortilla Asesina, Castle Street, Inverness. Some live songs from the disc, demo of CD and invited songs from the floor. See more on Songs From A Jar Here. And Facebook event page HERE:
Thursday 1st December 2106. Wee Windaes website launch with the National Library of Scotland. Wee Windaes bears the fruits of over a year’s researches into the collections at the National Library to chart the continuum of the Scots language, in poems, plays, novels, ballads, folktales, street songs and more. Wee Windaes will continue to be constructed until September 2017 and will provide interpretative texts, education resources, audio samples, images, embedded films from the NLS Moving Image archive as well as digitised books and manuscripts, many of which have never been seen in digitised form.