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Invergarven Press: Hard Times pub. Jan. 2021 ISBN 978-1-7399244-0-9 A Wee Book O’ Limericks pub. Jan. 2022 ISBN 978-1-7399244-1-6 Jim MacCool Tips His Bonnet To The Sonnet pub. Mar. 2022 ISBN 978-1-7399244-2-3 When Pushkin Came To Shovekin… MacCool On Tour with Alexander Pushkin pub. Jul. 2022 ISBN 978-1-7399244-4-7 The Parliament of Fowls pub. Aug. 2022 ISBN 978-1-7399244-3-0 Yaketty-Yak…Pasternak! MacCool On Tour with Verse inspired by Boris Pasternak pub. Jan. 2023 ISBN978-1-7399244-5-4 Bleak Hoose Terse Verse from a Year and Worse Performance Poetry Soc. Book of the Year pub. Feb. 2023 ISBN 978-1-7399244-6-1
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On 13 November 2004, he presented two of his stories "The Boxer's Tale" and the "Story of Sawney Bean" in Pember Heath
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