There were three dozen poems in Sandy’s first collection, ‘Crotal Ruadh – Red Lichen’ (Acair 2016), eight of them also songs. They vary greatly in subject matter, mood, style and use of various formal rhyme schemes, or free verse.  Sandy’s second collection, ‘An Seachdamh Tonn – The Seventh Wave’, was published by Acair in 2021, and comprises fifty new poems and a dozen new songs.  Her third book, ‘An Naomhsgeul as Buaine – the Most Enduring Saint’s Fable’, also came out in 2021 (published by Sallan Ltd), and is a suite of seventeen Cantos. 

Here are a few examples of her writing, starting with the first and last verses of ‘An Seachdamh Tonn’ – ‘The Seventh Wave’, the title-poem of her second book; and the first and last verses of ‘Eilean Ì’ – ‘Iona’, the lynch-pin Canto of her most recent book about St Columba. Also a selection from her first two collections: ‘Na Fir-Chlis’ – ‘The Northern Lights’; ‘Cailleach-Oidhche Fhroboist’ – ‘Frobost Owl’; ‘An Nighean à Chopacabana’ – ‘The Girl from Copacabana’; ‘Cumha a’ Chrùin Chiomaich’ – ‘Lament of the Captive Crown’; ‘Luimnichean Meek’ – ‘Donald’s Limericks’; ‘Cadal Dòchasach’ –  ‘Hopeful Sleep’; ‘Cruit-Cuimhneachaidh’ – ‘Harp of Commemoration’.  You may also view videos of ‘Fath’ – ‘Vision’, which was commissioned by the Scottish Poetry Library in July 2020; and of ‘Thig Charon a’ Shuirighe’ – ‘Charon Comes a’ Courting’, commissioned by the Gaelic Books Council in May 2020; and hear an audio of ‘Prìosanachd nan Còisir’ – ‘The Choirs’ Imprisonment’, commissioned by Literature Alliance Scotland in July 2021.