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• The Crisis of Contemporary Literature: Child Labour and the Death of the Real
  More and more often I read contemporary literature with tears in my eyes. Not because I think it is so good or bad, but because I realize in every fiber of my being: this is child labor.
• The Forgotten Prophet: Christopher Smart and the Sacred Madness of Jubilate Agno
  Christopher Smart wrote one of the strangest and most magnificent poems in the English language while confined to a madhouse.
• The Dark Pastoral of John Clare: Nature, Madness and the Loss of Place
  John Clare is one of the great tragic figures of English literary history — a peasant poet of extraordinary gifts who spent the last twenty-seven years of his life in an asylum.
• Poetry: An Absurd Profession at the Crossroads of Love and Nothingness
  Poetry has become in the modern era primarily a combination of job creation and romantic encounters. The question is whether anything else remains.
• The Visionary Realism of W.S. Graham: Language as Landscape
  W.S. Graham occupies a peculiar position in twentieth-century British poetry — admired by poets, largely unknown to the general reader.