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Days of the Week

Days of the Week is a poem in the London Magazine‘s Oct./Nov. issue

Part of the Point of the Pint

Article in the Marshwood Vale about Bridport’s Swift Pint survey

Writings For Brear

Essay about Bryher, Isles of Scilly, for PN Review

What Is a Book?

Essay in PN Review 280

Discovered During Repair Work

Article on the website of the Marshwood Vale Magazine about the remarkable work of the Portland Global Friendship Group with migrants from the Bibby Stockholm. It appeared in print in the September – October issue of the PN Review.

Semyon Lipkin and the Russia That Must Be There Somewhere

A review of A Close Reading of Fifty-Three Poems by Semyon Izrailevich Lipkin and Testimony From the Literary Memoirs of Semyon Lipkin in the Jan.-Feb. issue of PN Review.

Megaphone Man and the Echo at the British Museum

The British Museum’s withdrawal from its sponsorship deal with BP earlier this year was rightly praised. How might its collections be more actively used to address the climate crisis? My thoughts are published today in the Dec.-Jan. 2024 issue of the London Magazine.

The Heritage of Humanism and Enlightenment in Exile Literature

Chapter about Stefan Zweig’s Erasmus in ‘Das Erbe von Humanismus und Aufklärung in der Exilliteratur’, vol. 17 in the Schriftenreihe des Stefan Zweig Zentrum Salzburg. Published by Königshausen & Neumann, with Margit Dirscherl, Arturo Larcati and Ritchie Robertson editors.

The Starry Parabola

On pages 50-1 of the July 2023 issue of The Marshwood Vale +, I’ve a piece about the efforts of actor Martin Clunes to evict his neighbours Theo Langton and Ruth McGill.

Huge Dolls Get Mandolined

A review of ‘Poppy’ by Joseph Minden, for the PN Review. A provocative sequence of poems about the English and memory.