Peep Frae Your Mind and the poems from Lock Doon Poyams.Peep Frae Your Mind is my second volume of poems. They are better than the first, because I have been more ruthless: less is more.

These poems are thoughts, recollections, ponderings, snapshots of time, deliberations upon events, and the playing with words for the expression of emotion. But they are all meaningful to me at some level.

Some are written solely in standard English, others in Ulster Scots, others in a combination of both. This is a good representation of my speech, sometimes Ulster Scots, sometimes standard English, but normally a combination.

Thank you, Angela Graham, for that gentle prod to actually do something with these poems.

The picture on the front cover is the iconology of my writing: a keyboard and headphones. The keyboard is writing; the headphones are the hearing of my work (via text-to-speech technology). #Dyslexia #DyslexicWriter