The Geecologist

A Girl Is A Half-Formed Thing

A Girl Is A Half-Formed Thing

Jan 10, 2026 | Fiction | 0 comments

For you. You’ll soon. You’ll give her name. In the stitches of her skin she’ll wear your say. Mammy me? Yes you. Bounce the bed, I’d say. I’d say that’s what you did. Then lay you down. They cut you round. Wait and hour and day. Walking up corridors up the stairs. Are...
Island

Island

Nov 22, 2025 | Essays, Non-Fiction, Travel | 0 comments

Ynys Enlli was among the many remote places of the west and north-west coasts of Britain and Ireland to be settled between around 500 and 1000 AD. During those centuries, an extraordinary migration occurred. Monks, anchorites, solitaries, and other devout itinerants...
Night Boat To Tangier

Night Boat To Tangier

Dec 2, 2023 | Fiction | 0 comments

Benjamin? Charlie says. He want a black-sand beach. He want to be talking bollocks. He want a circle of swaying dreadlocks all ’round him. He want the girls and the dogs hanging on his every word. He want to be staring all soulful into the moonlight. Ranting his...
The Power Of Geography

The Power Of Geography

Oct 22, 2022 | Essays, Non-Fiction | 2 comments

The political union of 1707 had been preceded by a natural one over 400 million years earlier. England was attached to a small continent called Avalonia, drifting northwards across the ocean. At the same time, several thousand kilometres away, Scotland was heading...
On Balance

On Balance

Sep 22, 2018 | Fiction, Poetry | 0 comments

Tribute It takes ten thousand hours to shine at anything.And if we haven’t spent night after night on the Reeperbahn cranking our act so tight it stood up all by itself and walked,we’ve come close, but we still fall flat. We sweat inside our Sullivan suits. The early...