He has also been shortlisted for the Michael Marks Prize and the Basil Bunting Award. His poetry has been published, anthologised and broadcast widely and he is widely claimed as an excellent reader of his work. The author of five collections, and numerous pamphlets, his Selected Poems ‘Not Actually Being in Dumfries’ were published by Luath Press in Edinburgh in 2015. His book about his home region ‘McMillan’s Galloway’was published in 2016 also by Luath. He is currently working on a play about radical Galloway funded by Creative Scotland. A strange book of sheep poems is due from Roncadora in late 2016.