Selected Essays - click to read
New York Review of Books - A New York Minute: On Hannah Sullivan and Catherine Barnett
New York Review of Books - ‘I Work and I Remember’: On Lawrence Joseph
Poetry - Letters Are Not Life: On the Dolphin Letters
Poetry - Too Mousy, Alas: On Thom Gunn
Poetry - We, Too, Have Been Beguiled: On Walter de la Mare
Poetry - Sound of the Axe on Fresh Wood: On Edna St Vincent Millay
Poetry - Flowers of Drivel: On Clare Bucknell’s The Treasuries
Poetry - One’s Own Evidence: On Saskia Hamilton
Poetry - Getting Messianic: On Seamus Heaney’s Letters
The Baffler - Singing in Dark Times: On Michael Robbins
The Baffler - Celtic Twilight: On Colin Barrett and Claire Keegan
The Baffler - A Puncher’s Chance
The Paris Review - Undisputed: Fury vs Usyk
The Guardian - Escape To Glory - Boxing as a Way Out
New Statesman - The Meaning of Tyson Fury
New Statesman - A Matter of Life and Death: On Boxing
TLS - Freelance: On Daniel Mendoza
TLS - Freelance: Horizon in Your Pocket
TLS - Freelance: Rimbaud of the Ropes
TLS - Freelance: Reconstruction Road - On Richard Yates in London
TLS - The Battle Against Bullshit: On Keith Douglas
TLS - On The Michael Marks Awards: Poetry Pamphlets
TLS - Shane MacGowan at Sixty
TLS - The Cult of Anthony Joshua
Los Angeles Review of Books - A Solo on the Pipe: On Julia Copus’s biography of Charlotte Mew
Los Angeles Review of Books - On Derek Mahon
Los Angeles Review of Books - We Go On: On the Poetry of Hugo Williams
The Believer - The Dream Songs and The Skeleton Tree: On Nick Cave
Faber & Faber Blog - On Robert Lowell’s Centenary
The White Review - Emily Berry’s Stranger, Baby
The White Review - Fiona Benson’s Vertigo & Ghost