From the Word Go (2007) included a sonnet sequence in memory of his Czech father, and ‘Live Air’ [4] about his name-sharing with the singer-songwriter Nick Drake.
The poems were recorded by United Visual Artists as the soundtrack for High Arctic, an installation at the National Maritime Museum in 2011.
[5] Drake adapted the collection as a performance piece for COP 26, with Peter Mullan and original music by Emma Donald and Isbel Pendelbury.
His poems include “The Future” recorded by Andrew Scott for Culture Declares Emergency and Letters to the Earth, "From The Song Dynasty"[6] and "Static".
Other stage plays include Angel (Salisbury Playhouse/Bristol Old Vic), an adaptation of Lope de Vega's Peribanez at Cambridge Arts Theatre (1999), Success (National Theatre Connections 2009), To Reach the Clouds adapted Philippe Petit's 2002 memoir of his high wire walk between the Twin Towers for Nottingham Playhouse in 2006.
[11] He has collaborated with composer Rachel Portman on Earth Song (2019) commissioned by BBC Radio 3, including quotations from Greta Thunberg, and Tipping Points (2023) with violinist Niklas Liepe, a work of six poems on the climate emergency and six corresponding musical movements.