My written and musical publications in print and on line.

Music in print:

• ‘The Waltz of the Spirits’, ‘The Frozen Mouse Polka’ and ‘To Hell with Austerity’ in Rowan Leslie’s collection, Contemporary Fiddle Tunes from the Northeast of Ireland. Mel Bay Publications, 2020.
• ‘Sheep Island’ and ‘The Waltz of the Spirits’ in Katy Bustard’s Ancient and Contemporary Irish Music for Harp, vol. 3, 2020.

You can also see my compositions page for MP3 and PDF downloads of new works.

Creative:

Prose:

• “Moon Child.” The Blue Hour Anthology 1 (2013): 17-18.
• “Go Ahead.” The Blue Hour Anthology 1 (2013): 58-61.
• “The Recital.” Roadside Fiction, VI.
• “You are my Sunshine.” The Incubator 3, December 2014.
• “An Unusual Conversation.” The Launchpad 1, December 2015.
• “A Timely Departure.” The Launchpad 2, June 2016.
• “Over the Wall.” Prachya Review, August 2016.

Poetry:

• “Consumed.” The Blue Hour Magazine.
• “King William III Arrives at Carrickfergus.” ‘Still’ Anthology, Belfast, Community Arts Partnership, 2014.
• “Kelvin’s Statue, Botanic Gardens, Belfast” Octavius Magazine, May 2, 2015.
• “Surface Tension” January 12, 2016 in Panning for Poems 4.
• “Poeni am eich Cof?” The Dovetail Journal 2 (Autumn 2016): 82-85. Online version.
• Covidioms. http://www.poetryni.com/covidioms.html
• “Homeland Security.” ‘Heartland’ Anthology, Belfast, Community Arts Partnership, 2021.

Drama:

• With Caoileann O’Rourke. “Everything is Possible: the Quantum Bedroom.” The Launchpad 1, December 2015.

Blogs and blog posts:

• Vernacularisms: Notes from Belfast: http://vernacularisms.com
• Vernacularisms: Nótaí ó Bhéal Feirste: http://vernacularismsgaeilege.wordpress.com/
• “Slave to the Rhythm?” Incubator Journal Online, April 4, 2014.
• “Cameron and Hollande: Opportunism after the Paris Attacks?” Look Left, 27-11-2015.

Academic

Chapters in Books: 

• “Imagining Book-Production in Fourteenth-Century Herefordshire: The Scribe of British Library MS Harley 2253 and his ‘Organising Principles.’” Imagining the Book. Brepols, 2006.

Journal Articles:

• “BL MS Royal 12 C. xii and the Problems of Patronage.” Journal of the Early Book Society 3 (2000): 216-26.
• “Imagined Histories: an English Prophecy in a Welsh Manuscript Context.” Journal of the Early Book Society 5 (2002): 151-60.
• “English and Latin Texts in Welsh Contexts: Reflections of a Multilingual Society in National Library of Wales MS Peniarth 12.” Yearbook of English Studies (special number) 33 (2003): 54-64.
• With Stephen Kelly, ‘Culturally Mapping the English Brut: a Preliminary Report from the “Imagining History” Project.’ Journal of the Early Book Society 6 (2003): 41-60.
• “The Middle English Prose Brut” Literary Encyclopaedia Online, 2004 http://www.litencyc.com/php/sworks.php?rec=true&UID=6174
• With Toshiyuki Takamiya, “Two Hitherto Unrecorded Fragments of the Brut,” Notes and Queries (June 2005).

Reviews:

• Studies in the Harley Manuscript: the Scribes, Contents and Social Contexts of British Library MS Harley 2253. Ed Susanna Fein. Kalamazoo:  Medieval Institute Publications, 2000. For the Journal of the Early Book Society 4 (2001).
• Multilingualism in Later Medieval Britain. D.  A.  Trotter.  Woodbridge:  Brewer, 2000.  For Yearbook of English Studies (special number) 33 (2003): 339-340.
• Romance of the Rose Illuminated. Ed. Alcuin Blamires and Gail C. Holian. For the Journal of the Early Book Society 6 (2003): 175-178.
• James A. Knapp, Illustrating the Past in Early Modern England: the Representation of History in Printed Books. For the Journal of the Early Book Society 7 (2004): 187-190.