Guardian profile (details of poetry reviews published in Guardian Review)
Review of Alan Gillis's Here Comes the Night and Jane Duran's Graceline, Times Literary Supplement, No 5638, 22 April 2011
Review of Sam Willetts's New Light for the Old Dark and John Whale's Waterloo Teeth, Times Literary Supplement, No 5630, 25 February 2011
Review of Adam O'Riordan's In the Flesh, Times Literary Supplement, No 5617, 26 November 2010
Review of Katharine Towers' The Floating Man, Guardian, 11 September 2010
Review of Simon Armitage's Seeing Stars, Times Literary Supplement, No 5613, 29 October 2010
Review of Robin Robertson's The Wrecking Light, Times Literary Supplement, No 5603/04, 20 & 27 August 2010
Review of Glyn Maxwell’s Hide Now, Stand, Vol 9 (4), August 2010
'A Wide Compass', review of Jeremy Reed's West End Survival Kit, Michael Schmidt's Collected Poems, Jenny Joseph's Nothing like Love, Carolyn Jess-Cooke's Inroads, and Sheenagh Pugh's Later Selected Poems, Poetry Review, Vol. 100 No. 2, July 2010
Review of Sian Hughes's The Missing, Times Literary Supplement, No 5590, 21 May 2010
Review of Tony Williams's The Corner of Arundel Lane and Charles Street, Times Literary Supplement, No 5584, 9 April 2010
Review of Imtiaz Dharker's Leaving Fingerprints, Jane Ormerod's Recreational Vehicles on Fire, and Sally Festing's Salaams, Magma, Issue 46, March 2010
Review of Lorraine Mariner's Furniture and Carrie Etter's The Tethers, Times Literary Supplement, No 5575, 5 February 2010
Review of Hilary Menos's Berg, New Welsh Review, No 87, Spring 2010
Review of Ros Barber's Material, PN Review 191, Vol. 36 No. 3, January-February 2010
Reviews of Mark Waldron's The Brand New Dark and John F. Deane's A Little Book of Hours, Times Literary Supplement, No 5568/69, 18 & 25 December 2009
Review of Alison Brackenbury's Singing in the Dark, Claire Crowther's The Clockwork Gift, and Matthew Welton's 'We needed coffee but...', Magma, Issue 45, November 2009
Reviews of Emma Jones's The Striped World and Kevin Hart's Young Rain, Times Literary Supplement, No 5559, 16 October 2009
Review of Jacob Polley's Talk of the Town, Times Literary Supplement, No 5541, 12 June 2009
Review of Mark Doty's Theories and Apparitions, John Agard's Clever Backbone, and Rob A Mackenzie's The Opposite of Cabbage, Magma, Issue 44, June 2009
Review of Colette Bryce’s Self-Portrait in the Dark, Stand, Vol 9 (1), June 2009
‘Glistening as it vanishes’, review of Maura Dooley’s Life Under Water, Times Literary Supplement, No 5529, 20 March 2009
‘A Desire to Share’, review of Christopher Middleton’s Collected Poems, Poetry Review, Vol. 98 No. 4, December 2008
‘New Trainers’, review of Moniza Alvi’s Split World: Poems 1990-2005 and Europa, Times Literary Supplement, No.5505, 3 October 2008
‘In Brief’ review of Stephanie Norgate’s Hidden River, Times Literary Supplement, No.5504, 26 September 2008
Review of Paul Abbott’s Flood, Tower Poetry, June 2008
Review of Jean Sprackland’s Tilt, Tower Poetry, January 2008
Review of Nick Laird's On Purpose, The Stinging Fly, Issue 8 Vol. 2, Winter 2007/08
Review of Tim Turnbull's Stranded in Sub-Atomica (Eyewear)
Review of Jacob Polley's Little Gods (The Poem)
Also forthcoming is the following in-depth critical-biographical essay:
“Nick Laird.” - a critical biographical essay. British Writers, Supplement XVII. Ed. Jay Parini. Farmington Hills, MI: Thomson-Gale. Due December 2010.
I also write critical perspectives of poets for the British Council's Contemporary Writers website database. Below is a list of authors whose critical perspectives I have completed to date, with appropriate links.
John Agard
Simon Armitage
David Constantine
Julia Copus
Robert Crawford
Leontia Flynn
Jen Hadfield
Michael Hofmann
Mick Imlah
Nick Laird
Patrick McGuinness
Daljit Nagra
Don Paterson
Tom Paulin
Maurice Riordan
Carol Rumens
Penelope Shuttle
Zoe Skoulding
Greta Stoddart
Hugo Williams
Samantha Wynne-Rhydderch
