Themes
His main interest is in Post-Enlightenment Scottish literature, including Robert Burns and Robert Fergusson, but he has a keen interest in contemporary poetry, including Edwin Morgan, Douglas Dunn and Liz Lochhead. He is a prolific and successful poet himself, and concerns himself with the nature and processes of creative writing. He has a particular interest in the work of T. S. Eliot and other aspects of Modernism.
He is interested in the relationship between literature, particularly poetry, and modern science, including Information Technology. He says he shares an appreciation of ‘poetry and science as kinds of discovery quickened by observation and imagination’. He even goes so far as to claim that 'It is part of the poet's delight even duty, to use such words and experience in poetry'.
The geography and place names of Scotland feature very prominently in his own poems and he takes a lively interest in the developing politics of contemporary Scotland. As well as science, politics, religion, landscape, and environment and spirituality, his poems deal with gender and sex (particularly married sex).
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