Publications/Releases

On the Internet

(R) = Recited    (S) = Sung

I Sing the Sonnetan e-pamphlet, 51 sonnets, in Snakeskin #238, March 2017
http://www.snakeskinpoetry.co.uk/238isingthe.html

From Moonrise till Dawn: A Cycle of Poetry and Songs, an e-book, 128 individual pieces, 2013
http://www.nordosten.dk/frommoonrisetilldawn.html

I Sing the Sonnetan e-pamphlet, 36 sonnets, in Snakeskin #182, December 2011
http://www.snakeskinpoetry.co.uk/192Sing%20the%20Sonnet.pdf

A review of the above:
Tim Love: http://litrefsreviews.blogspot.com/2012/01/i-sing-sonnet-by-duncan-gillies.html

SONNETS

Desire” in Candelabrum, October 2007 http://www.poetrymagazines.org.uk/magazine/record.asp?id=20419 https://gists.wordpress.com/2011/09/09/hope/ (S)

“Shades of Venice” (“Horror Vacui”) in The Shit Creek Review, October 2007
http://www.shitcreekreview.com/issue5/page12.htm?12
http://www.shitcreekreview.com/issue5/editorial.html (editors’ favourites)

“Shades of Venice” (“Horror Vacui”) & “Dunderhead” in The Chimaera, May 2008
http://pandora.nla.gov.au/pan/90303/20081113-1537/www.the-chimaera.com/May2008/Poems/MacLaurin.html (S – not saved here)

“L’Homme Révolté” in Snakeskin #158, September 2009
http://homepages.nildram.co.uk/~simmers/158rev.html
https://gists.wordpress.com/2011/09/30/lhomme-revolte-2/ (S)

“Just Rain” in The Barefoot Muse #10, Spring 2010
http://www.barefootmuse.com/archives/issue10/maclaurin.htm (S)

“Regret” in 14 by 14, March 2010
https://gists.wordpress.com/2011/08/05/i-sing-the-sonnet-2/ (S)

“Still Life” in Snakeskin #163, April 20 http://www.snakeskinpoetry.co.uk/163still.html
https://gists.wordpress.com/2011/10/13/still-life/ (S)

“I Sing the Sonnet” & On Esperance Bay” in Lucid Rhythms, I/ 2010
http://www.lucidrhythms.com/Spring-2010/MacLaurin_Duncan.htm
https://gists.wordpress.com/2011/08/05/i-sing-the-sonnet-2/ (S)

“Lisa Leaving” on Esbjerg Gymnasium’s website (S)
Here on gists

“No Bloody Way!” in The Flea, March 2011
http://www.the-flea.com/Issue14/NoBloodyWay.html (link defunct and the wrong issue is on the pandora back-up) (R) (S)
https://gists.wordpress.com/2023/04/20/no-bloody-way/

“The Four Motives” (“Expanding Notes”) in Snakeskin #179, August/September 2011
http://www.snakeskinpoetry.co.uk/179expand.html
http://snakeskinpoetry.wordpress.com/2011/07/31/duncans-expansions/ (editor’s favourite)
http://poemshape.wordpress.com/2011/08/22/why-dont-poets-write-in-rhyme/

“Revelation” https://gists.wordpress.com/2011/08/11/lucky-charms/ (S)
(first published in Candelabrum, April 2003)

“Who Needs an Easy Love” https://gists.wordpress.com/2011/08/18/who-needs-an-easy-love/ (S)
(first published in Quantum Leap, 2003

“Remorse” https://gists.wordpress.com/2011/08/26/remorse/ (S)

“The MUV Affair” https://gists.wordpress.com/2011/09/01/deceit/ (S)

“The Magic Garden” https://gists.wordpress.com/2011/09/16/my-magic-garden/ (S)

“Four Callings” https://gists.wordpress.com/2011/09/22/the-birth-of-a-poet/ (S)

“My Master Sonnet” https://gists.wordpress.com/2011/10/07/expanding-notes/

“The Big Smoke” https://gists.wordpress.com/2011/10/27/the-big-smoke/ (S)

“Misfit” https://gists.wordpress.com/2011/11/04/the-misfit/ (S)

“Mama’s Little Boy” https://gists.wordpress.com/2011/11/11/mama%e2%80%99s-little-boy/ (S)
http://snakeskinpoetry.wordpress.com/2011/11/28/singing-the-sonnet/

“Mum’s the Word” https://gists.wordpress.com/2011/11/18/mums-the-word/ (S)

“On Our Silver Anniversary” https://gists.wordpress.com/2011/11/24/silver-anniversary/ (S)

“Looking for Gold” 
 in Snakeskin #182, December 2011
http://www.snakeskinpoetry.co.uk/192Sing%20the%20Sonnet.pdf

“The Druid” https://gists.wordpress.com/2012/01/27/the-druid/ (S)
(first published in Red Moon, 1987)

“The Four Oracles” in Snakeskin #185, March 2012
http://www.snakeskinpoetry.co.uk/185futures.html

“On Papsie’s 89th Birthday” in Snakeskin #188, August 2012
http://www.snakeskinpoetry.co.uk/188papsie.html

“Pusher of Dreams” in Snakeskin #192, January 2013
http://www.snakeskinpoetry.co.uk/192muse.html

“The End” in Angle, Issue 3, 2013
http://anglepoetry.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/pdf/Angle%20Issue%203.pdf

“The Four Virtues” in Snakeskin #206, April 2014
http://www.snakeskinpoetry.co.uk/206nofixed.html

“Chess with Monsieur Joffroy” https://gists.wordpress.com/2015/04/03/chess-poetry/
(first published in Chess, January 2015)
http://www.4ncl.co.uk/download/CHESS1415/18-24%204NCL.PDF

“Look! We Have Landed!” in Snakeskin #220, July 2015
http://www.snakeskinpoetry.co.uk/220landed.html

“The Kind Old Moon” in Snakeskin #224, December 2015
http://www.snakeskinpoetry.co.uk/224fedup.htm

“Bio” in Snakeskin #232, August 2016
http://www.snakeskinpoetry.co.uk/231bio.html

“Melancholic” in Snakeskin #235, December 2016
http://www.snakeskinpoetry.co.uk/235melanch.html

“The Psychology of Chess” in Snakeskin #263, July/August 2019
http://www.snakeskinpoetry.co.uk/263psychology.html

“No Bloody Way!” in New College Arts Anthology, May 10, 2020
https://issuu.com/ncartsweek/docs/arts_week_anthology_final

“A Karen Blixen” in Snakeskin #285, June 2021
http://www.snakeskinpoetry.co.uk/285blixen.html

“Political Purpose” in New College Arts Anthology, May 22, 2022
 https://issuu.com/newcollegeartsweek/docs/a5_anthology_final


OTHER POEMS & SONGS

5 haiku in Lishanu, September 2005
(link defunct) http://www.lishanu.com/01/haiku/maclaurin.htm

“Air”, “On Sören Jessen’s Sand”, “On Paper” & “Bags of Time” in The Chimaera, October 2007
https://webarchive.nla.gov.au/awa/20081114033816/http://pandora.nla.gov.au/pan/90303/20081113-1537/www.the-chimaera.com/October2007/Expat/MacLaurin.html

“On the Quiet” with Christian Meonia George, 2008
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0DmVNRvoV9Y (S)
(first published in Candelabrum, October 2002)

“The Edinburgh Festival Fringe, 1980” in Snakeskin #148, October 2008
http://snakeskinpoetry.co.uk/148fring.html

“The Wanderer” in Snakeskin #158, September 2009
http://homepages.nildram.co.uk/~simmers/158wand.html
https://gists.wordpress.com/2012/02/28/the-wanderer/ (S)

“The Dipsomaniac” in The Flea, May 2011
http://www.the-flea.com/Issue16/TheDipsomaniac.html (R)

“A Thin Slice of Lemon”, Scarriet, August 2011
http://scarriet.wordpress.com/2011/08/05/forever-green/

“License to Grill” https://gists.wordpress.com/2011/10/20/license-to-grill/ (S)

“Internal Memo” https://gists.wordpress.com/2012/02/10/internal-memo/ (S)

“Valentine” https://gists.wordpress.com/2012/02/14/valentine/

“My Naked Heart” https://gists.wordpress.com/2012/02/23/my-naked-heart/ (S)

“Black Cloud” https://gists.wordpress.com/2012/02/27/black-cloud/ (S)
(first published in Quantum Leap, February 2003)

“The Way We Were Before” https://gists.wordpress.com/2012/03/04/streets-of-gold/ (S)
(first published in Quantum Leap, November 2003)

“Cat” https://gists.wordpress.com/2012/03/09/dream/ (S)
(first published in Anglo Files, September 1998)

“The Balladeer” https://gists.wordpress.com/2012/03/14/the-balladeer/ (S)

“Inspiration” https://gists.wordpress.com/2012/03/27/the-story-so-far/ (S)

“The Bard That Sang Stromness” https://gists.wordpress.com/2012/04/03/the-bard-that-sang-stromness/ (S)

“A Giraffe Among Jackals” and “The Real Pity” in Angle, Issue 1, 2012
http://anglepoetry.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/pdf/Angle%20Issue%201.pdf

“Christmas Letter” in Per Contra, Summer, 2012
http://www.percontra.net/issues/24/light-verse/christmas-letter/
(1st published in Quantum Leap, November 2005)

“The Bad Dancer” in Snakeskin #187, July 2012
http://www.snakeskinpoetry.co.uk/187badd.html

“The Whisperings Within” in Angle, Issue 2, 2012
http://anglepoetry.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/pdf/Angle%20Issue%202.pdf

“Smoke” in Snakeskin #192, January 2013
http://www.snakeskinpoetry.co.uk/192smoke.html

“Hedgehog” in The Passionate Transitory, Issue 3, Spring 2013
http://thepassionatetransitory.yolasite.com/duncan-gillies-maclaurin3.php

“After the Flood” in Snakeskin #200, September 2013
http://www.snakeskinpoetry.co.uk/200flood.html

“Cock-crow III” in Angle, Issue 4, 2013
http://anglepoetry.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/pdf/Angle%20Issue%204.pdf

“The Wee Wifie” in Snakeskin #207, May 2014
http://www.snakeskinpoetry.co.uk/207wifie.html

“The Poetry of Chess” in Snakeskin #217, April 2015
http://www.snakeskinpoetry.co.uk/217dgmaclaurin.html

“Erato in the Wings” in Snakeskin #243, September 2017
http://www.snakeskinpoetry.co.uk/243erato.html

“Whiskey in the Morning” in Snakeskin #247, January 2018
http://www.snakeskinpoetry.co.uk/246lemon.html

“Thin Rags Seek Love” in Snakeskin #259, March 2019
http://www.snakeskinpoetry.co.uk/259obsession.html

“Evolution” in Snakeskin #266, November 2019  http://www.snakeskinpoetry.co.uk/266evolution.html

“Oxygen, Oxygen” in Snakeskin #284, May 2021 http://www.snakeskinpoetry.co.uk/284oxygen.html

“Soon To Be Sixty” in Snakeskin #292, January 2022 http://www.snakeskinpoetry.co.uk/292soontobe.html

“The Turquoise of Your Eyes” in Pulsebeat, May 2022
https://pulsebeatpoetry.com/pulsebeat-02/duncan-gillies-maclaurin/

“Et Livstykke” in Snakeskin #296, June 2022
http://www.snakeskinpoetry.co.uk/296ellivstukke.html

Maskless, We Were Free” in Snakeskin #315, March 2024
http://www.snakeskinpoetry.co.uk/315maskless.html

ESSAYS

“A Modern-Day Icarus” in The Shit Creek Review subzine, II, July 2007
https://gists.wordpress.com/2021/08/24/a-modern-day-icarus/

“An Anglo-Scot in Denmark” in The Chimaera, October 2007
http://pandora.nla.gov.au/pan/90303/20081113-1537/www.the-chimaera.com/October2007/Expat/MacLaurin.html

“The Horror of Yeats and Hughes”, The Shit Creek Review, October 2007
http://pandora.nla.gov.au/pan/90302/20081113-1543/www.shitcreekreview.com/issue5/page296ea9.html?29

“Teaching Poetry Nowadays”, The Chimaera, September 2008
http://pandora.nla.gov.au/pan/90303/20081113-1537/www.the-chimaera.com/Sept2008/Essays/MacLaurin.html
Linked on Capelen Damm’s website, “Access to English Literature”:
http://access-literature.cappelendamm.no/c314223/sammendrag/vis.html?tid=325898

“An Ex-Pat Reports on StAnza”, Scottish Review of Books, April 2011 – republished as:
“A Short Odyssey: An Ex-Pat Reports on StAnza”, Scottish Review of Books, January 2013
http://scottishreviewofbooks.org/index.php/blogs/entry/a-short-odyssey-an-ex-pat-reports-on-stanza-2011
“A Short Odyssey”, EMU Engelsk, April 2011 – link defunct, but online on Gists:
https://gists.wordpress.com/2012/01/20/a-short-odyssey/

“Forever Green”, Scarriet, 5th August 2011
http://scarriet.wordpress.com/2011/08/05/forever-green/

“The Angels Are Winking: A Memoir from Galway and Dublin”, Gists, 10th October 2012
https://gists.wordpress.com/2012/10/10/the-angels-are-winking-a-memoir-from-galway-and-dublin/

“Ben Okri in Edinburgh and Cape Town”, Gists, 22nd October 2012
https://gists.wordpress.com/2012/10/22/ben-okri-in-edinburgh-and-cape-town/dublin/

“Cryptic Structures in Farjeon and Stallings”, Gists, 17th April 2017
https://gists.wordpress.com/2017/04/17/easter-treasure-cryptic-structures-in-farjeon-and-stallings/

“Owen, Sassoon, Barker and Me”, Gists, 4th November 2018
https://gists.wordpress.com/2018/11/04/owen-sassoon-barker-and-me/

“A Modern Shakespeare”, Gists, 31st August 2021
https://gists.wordpress.com/2021/08/31/a-modern-shakespeare/

REVIEWS

“Loopy Lupin” in Stride Magazine, May 2010
http://www.stridebooks.co.uk/Stride%20mag2010/May%202010/Tality%20Tales%20review.htm

“Surreal Look-ins” in Stride Magazine, May 2019
http://stridemagazine.blogspot.com/2019/06/surreal-look-ins.html

POWERPOINT PRESENTATIONS

“The Spirit of Bannockburn & The Scottish Independence Referendum of 2014”
https://gists.wordpress.com/2014/03/01/1688/

POEMS THAT ARE NOT ON THE INTERNET

Red Moon
, a collection of 35 poems, Merlin Books, Braunton, 1987

“My Muse” in Candelabrum, 1991

“Trust” in Romantic Renaissance, April 2002

“Sparrow” in A Bard Hair Day, April 2002

“Vision” in Romantic Renaissance, July 2002

“By the Sea” in Poet Tree, July 2002

“On the Quiet” in Candelabrum, October 2002

“Sören Jessen’s Sand” in Quantum Leap, November 2002 (1st prize)

“Moonrise”, “Sunset”, “Twilight” & “Dawn” in Poet Tree, January 2003

“Black Cloud” in Quantum Leap, February 2003

“Revelation” in Candelabrum, April 2003

“Who Needs an Easy Love?” in Quantum Leap, May 2003

“Earth” & “Water” in Poet Tree, July 2003

“Earth” & “Water” in A Bard Hair Day, October 2003

“Once Were Lovers” in Quantum Leap, November 2003

“Amber Moon”, Quantum Leap, February 2004

“Like the Stars” in A Bard Hair Day, April 2004

“Black Sun” in island, Autumn/Winter 2004

“Air” in island, Winter 2004/05

“From Moonrise till Dawn”, in Zimmerzine, 2005

“Letter to an Employee” in Quantum Leap, November 2005

“A Giraffe among Jackals” in Quantum Leap, February 2006 (3rd prize)

“Desire” in Candelabrum, October 2007

“Apology” & “A Dedication” in Concise Delights, Winter 2009

POEMS IN ANTHOLOGIES, ETC.

“By the Sea”, “Desire”, “Dunderhead”, “My Lady Lenor”, “On the Quiet”, “Shades of Venice”, “The Sweetest Duet”, & “With You” in Ann Bilde, Kvinden med den Smukke Have (The Woman with the Beautiful Garden), Forlaget Freja, 2011

Spotlighted at The Hyper Texts, December 2012
http://www.thehypertexts.com/Duncan%20Gillies%20MacLaurin%20Poet%20Poetry%20Picture%20Bio.htm

“Chess with Monsieur Joffroy”, “Dunderhead”, “Just Rain”, “Lisa Leaving”, “No Bloody Way!”, “On Esperance Bay”, “Regret”, “Shades of Venice”, “The Big Smoke” & “The End” in Extreme Sonnets, Beth Houston Publishing, 2020

“A Giraffe among Jackals”, “Bags of Time”, “Naucrate and the Partridge”, “On Sören Jessen’s Sand” & “The Real Pity” in Extreme Formal Poems, Beth Houston Publishing, 2021

“A Karen Blixen”, “I Sing the Sonnet”, “Mum’s the Word”, “On Our Silver Anniversary” & “The MUV Affair”
in Extreme Sonnets II, Beth Houston Publishing, 2022

INTERVIEWS

The Passionate Transitory, 2013
http://thepassionatetransitory.yolasite.com/dgm.php

TRANSLATIONS

Hans Tyrrestrup, Fra ordets palet / From the Palette of Words, Attika 1999
http://www.g.dk/alle-boeger-af/hans-tyrrestrup-01_0 

“Catchin Yer Eye” in Snakeskin #284, May 2021
http://www.snakeskinpoetry.co.uk/284catchin.html