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Poetry

Pilgrimage (Holyhead: Holy Island Press, 1988), 79 pp.  0 9513063 0 8

A parent's and teenager's alphabet book. In J. Foster, All in the family (Oxford: OUP), 1993

(ed.) John Bradburne: songs of the vagabond (Holy Island Press / John Bradburne Memorial Society, 1996), xi+84 pp. 0 9513063 4 0

(With Hilary Crystal) John Bradburne’s Mutemwa (Holy Island Press / John Bradburne Memorial Society, 2000), 38 pp. 0 9513063 5 9

Happenings (Holy Island Press, 2000), 66 pp.  0 9513063 6 7

(ed.) John Bradburne's Book of Days (Holy Island Press / John Bradburne Memorial Society, 2005), 370 pp. 0 951 30638 3

(ed.) John Bradburne's birds, bees, and beasts (Holy Island Press / John Bradburne Memorial Society, 2007), 370 pp. 978 0 9513063 9 0


Plays

This was your life (end-of-year play, UCL), 1961

The experiment (play for television), 1983

The visit (play for television), 1983

Distractions (play for radio), 1983

Living on (stage play), 1998


Local history and events

(With J.C. Davies) Convent (Holyhead: Holy Island Press, 1989), 130 pp. 0 9513063 1 6

Viva voce! Llandudno October Festival, 1994, 7-8, 52

The Ucheldre story (Holyhead: Holy Island Press, 2007), 72 pp. 0 951 30638 3


Biographical and interviews

Talking about linguistics with David Crystal. Interview, 1982

Commentary on Dylan Thomas extract. In C. Shewell & V. Dean (eds), A way with words (Sinclair Browne, 1982), 58-9

Trade descriptions apt. Reader's Digest, May 1987, 75

Remembering excellence - eventually. St Mary's College, Crosby, school magazine, 1996

Why did you resign?  In R. Gurd (ed), Turning points 1997 [not appeared]

Behind the CEens 1 and 2. CUP Newsletter, Moscow, 1997

Interview. Part 1, focusing on endangered languages, in New Routes 12, 2001, 6-8

Interview. Part 2, focusing on English, in New Routes 13, 2001, 6-8

David Crystal. In Keith Brown, Vivien Law and R H Robins (eds), Linguistics in Britain: Personal Histories. (London: Philological Society, 2002), 91--103

Unclassifiable

Hamlet - the H Quarto. A fantasy in honour of the tenth anniversary of Shakespeares' Globe, 2007