CAN I TELL YOU A STORY? IT MIGHT CHANGE YOUR LIFE...

The Boozer Cruiser

MARTIN KIELTY

MY 18TH BOOK, SIGNAL VIOLET, IS ON SALE NOW


I’m Martin Kielty, a Scottish professional storyteller travelling the canals of England and Wales on my narrowboat, finding inspiration among the pubs, people and places along the way.

I’ve been a newspaper journalist, author with three books in the Rock & Roll Hall of Fame,
TV and radio presenter, novelist, band manager, musician and poet.

My contribution to the human experience is telling stories for people.
I never know where my commitment to that concept will take me next ~ but it's fun finding out!

LATEST STORIES

June 21, 2026
Heroes have slept long in the shade of Dafydd’s Yew. They may yet wake. Will we?

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June 19, 2026
The triple-mayor’s poem (which he never got to hear)
May 7, 2026
Thank you to everyone who’s responded to Just The Dust , a 90-second view of the universe. Especially my collaborator Michael Astley-Brown, who must have brought the magic because I didn’t
April 21, 2026
And tell me you remember where you were When they dropped the second algorithm bomb 
March 21, 2026
A hundred miles into the wilds of waves and mists and spray Come home, come home, come home and light a fire in Village Bay 
February 21, 2026
We know you know what we are: fried embers of a murdered star 
February 8, 2026
I've receive a silver play button!
January 21, 2026
Wasted witches whispen on the wind, a zodiac zephyr set to sire a storm; bound bodies swing as bells, and start to chime
December 21, 2025
I got there six thousand years after he’d gone. It took me that long to find where I needed to be
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