PROSE

As this article for the journal Magma explains, I’ve been writing on poetry in British and American journals for more than two decades. I have a particular interest in the American heirs to W. H. Auden and T. S. Eliot.

ESSAYS AND REVIEWS

A wound that will not close: Anthony Hecht and the ‘dark tide’ of human history, the Times Literary Supplement, January 5th, 2024

The Sceptic in a Zealous Age: on NB by J.C.: A Walk Through the Times Literary Supplement (Carcanet, 2023), The Dark Horse, issue 47

Paradise Moves: on More Fiya: A New Collection of Black British Poetry (Canongate, 2022), The Dark Horse, issue 46

The Movement of the Mind: On Jonathan F. S. Post’s Elizabeth Bishop: A Very Short Introduction, the Los Angeles Review of Books, May 2022

Vehement Utterance: The Afterlife of an Anthology, The Dark Horse, issue 43

Review of Sweet Nothings by Rory Waterman (Carcanet, 2020), The Hopkins Review, Volume 13, No. 4

James Merrill’s Mirror: On Ghosts, Allusion and the Reflections of Tradition, The Hopkins Review, Volume 13, No. 1

Review of Jiggery-Pokery Semicentennial (The Waywiser Press, 2017), The Hopkins Review, Volume 12, No. 2

Substance and Shadows: On Detail and Influence in Anthony Hecht, The Dark Horse, issue 38

INTERVIEWS

Gathering flowers: Interview with Kathryn Gray in The Friday Poem, September 2022