Archive - The Only Gaijin in the Village

Field Recordings

As you read this I will be on my to Gifu City to meet up with my fellow podcast host Jason.

8 hrs ago •

August Reads (part two)

Paul Rossiter is also known as Isobar Press, the poetry press he runs single-handedly and which published my collection Mountain Retreats, so my review…

Sep 6 •

August 2025

August Books (part one)

Substack made me split this into two posts...

Aug 30 •

Poetry Scotland

These are some of the very earliest poems I had published, some written in high school, the rest during my first year or so at university.

Aug 23 •

Sinkhole (from A Thousand Cranes)

Published in 2011 to raise money after the March 2011 triple disaster

Aug 16 •

A Strange Visitation

The weirdest thing happened to me the other day.

Aug 9 •

Books About Bands episode two

We break into the regular scheduled Saturday posts to let those of you not already subscribed, that the second episode of the Books About Bands podcast…

Aug 3 •

Pippa Goldschmidt is one of my favourite short story writers so a new collection by her is grounds for celebration.

Aug 2 •

July 2025

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