Bibliography 2001 - 2010

Uncle Bobby playing chess against himself in his own photograph

2001

poetry: About Time Too (Manchester: Carcanet Press)
poem: ‘Equivocal Isle’, New Writing 10 ed. G. Szirtes and P. Lively (London: British Council)
poem: ‘Listen to the Summer', The Cortland Review no. 16, May [http://www.cortlandreview.com/issue/16/robinson16.html]
poem: ‘The Silences’, The Tanka Journal no. 18, June
poem: ‘Sheet-Lightning’, The Cortland Review no. 17, August [http://www.cortlandreview.com/issue/17/robinson17.html]
poem: ‘Returning Signs’, Metre no. 10, September
poem: ‘Farther Adventures’, Thumbscrew no. 19, Autumn
poem: ‘Untitled’, Times Literary Supplement no. 5147, 23 November
poems: ‘All Around’, ‘An Air’, ‘Months Gone’, The Reader no. 8, March
poems: ‘Sixteen Poems’, Kawauchi Review no. 2, July
poems: ‘Tsukihama’, ‘Surface Tension’, fourW no. 12, November
essay: 'End of Harm: Douglas Oliver, PN Review 139, May-June
essay: 'Donald Davie and "the exam of future life"', PN Review 140, July-August
essay: 'Pretended Speech Acts in Shakespeare's Sonnets', Essays in Criticism vol. 51 no. 3 , July
review: [Denis Donoghue, The Practice of Reading], Studies in English Literature [Tokyo], English Number 42
memoir: 'Lost and Found', Japan Experiences: Fifty Years, One Hundred Views ed. H. Cortazzi (Japan Library Press)
interviewed: 'The Reader talks to Peter Robinson', The Reader no. 8, March

2002

translations: The Great Friend and Other Translated Poems (Tonbridge, Kent: Worple Press) Poetry Book Society Translation Recommendation, spring, chosen by Douglas Dunn
criticism: Poetry, Poets, Readers: Making Things Happen (Oxford: Oxford University Press)
poem: 'The Relapses', Notre Dame Review 13, winter
poem: 'Against Himself', TLS no. 5160, 22 February
poem: 'Apropos of Nothing', Metre no. 11, April
poem: 'Italian Poplars', Thumbscrew nos. 20-21, September
poem: 'Seasonal Greetings', Worple Press Catalogue 2002-2003, November
poem: 'Perpetual Elsewhere', Wandering Dog, November
poems: 'Pasta-Making', 'Water Nymph', New Grains no. 5, May
poems: 'Above the Falls', 'Typhoon Weather', 'Beyond Recall', 'Going Nowhere', 'Electric Storm', 'Point of View', 'Occasional Sunset', English vol. 51 no. 1, spring
poems: 'Numbers Game', 'Babel Tower', Shearsman no. 51, August
poems: 'Point of View', 'Electric Storm', 'Along these Lines', The Reader no. 11, October
poems: 'Looking Up' [reprinted from Perfect Bound], 'Pressure Cooker Noise', 'Living in the Workroom', Jacket no. 20, December
translation: 'On Ten Fingers' by Pierre Reverdy, A Choice of Twentieth-Century French Verse ed. S. Romer (London: Faber and Faber), May
translation: 'Poem' by Pierre Reverdy, Jacket no. 20, December [reprinted from Perfect Bound]
translations: 'Graphology of a Goodbye', 'A Visit to Caleppio', 'Implosion', 'The Metaphysical Tramdriver' by Luciano Erba, Wandering Dog, December
essay: 'John Matthias's Dedication', Samizdat no. 9, June
essay: 'MacNeice, Munich, and Self-sufficiency', Shiron no. 40, March
essay: 'Pretended Acts: "The Shampoo"', Elizabeth Bishop: Poet of the Periphery ed. L. Anderson and J. Shapcott (Newcastle: Bloodaxe Books), April
essay: '"Absolute Circumstance": Mairi MacInnes', The Cambridge Quarterly vol. 31 no. 2, July
review: 'Distances, Losses, Links' [on Bill Manhire's Collected Poems and Doubtful Sounds], Jacket 16, March
review: 'Allen Curnow: "the mixture's moment"', Metre no. 11, April
review: 'When Crusoe was homesick' [on Donald Davie's Collected Poems], The Guardian, 15 June
review: 'Early Retirement' [on James Lasdun's Landscape with Chainsaw], Notre Dame Review 14, summer
review: 'The Reader Reviews' [on Mairi MacInnes's Clearances: A Memoir], The Reader no. 11, October
review: 'Caddel's Favourites' [on Richard Caddel's Magpie Words: Selected Poems], The Gig no. 12, November
review: 'Veronica Forrest-Thomson: On the Periphery', Jacket no. 20, December [reprinted from Perfect Bound]
interviewed: 'The Life of a Little Magazine: Perfect Bound 1976-1979', Nate Dorward talks to Peter Robinson, Jacket no. 20, December

2003

poetry: Selected Poems (Manchester: Carcanet Press), March
anthology: A Choice of British Poetry ed. P. Robinson, S. Sakurai et. al. (Tokyo: Seitousha)
poem: 'After Words', Salt no. 15, winter
poem: 'Calm Autumn', One Hundred Poets against the War ed. T. Scott (Cambridge and Perth: Salt Publishing), February
poem: 'Totes Meer', TLS no. 5219, 11 April
poem: 'My Italy', TLS no. 5220, 18 April
poem: 'Exchange Values', The North no. 32, May
poem: 'Unwitting Epitaph', TLS no. 5226, 29 May
poem: ‘Italian Poplars’ with translation as ‘Pioppi italiani’ by the author and Ornella Trevisan, 80 poeti per gli ottant'anni di Luciano Erba ed. Silvio Ramat (Milan: Interlinear), June
poem: 'For the Birds', TLS no. 5236, 8 August
poem: 'Pressure Cooker Noise', The Sunday Poem, The Independent on Sunday, 19 October
poem: 'Ghost Characters', Agenda, Celebratory Issue for William Cookson, vol. 39 no. 4, November
poem: 'Unwitting Epitaph', with a Japanese translation by Tomoko Kurumada, Dialogue: Tadashi Toyama in Search of a Vessel for the Soul (Tokyo: Itto-Henshushitsu), November
poems: 'For Lavinia', 'Leaving Sapporo', 'Pasta-Making', A Choice of British Poetry
poems: 'York Notes', 'Natural Behaviour', Metre no. 13, spring
poems: 'Brief Visitation', 'Closure', 'Opera Season', 'The Flow', Tears in the Fence no. 35, summer
poems: 'Bohemia-on-Sea', 'A Tribute', Notre Dame Review no. 16, summer
poems: 'Against Himself', 'Along these Lines', 'Water Nymph', Notre Dame Review no. 16 web issue, summer
poems: 'Time Trouble', 'Teaching Hospital', 'Side Effects', 'Fairground Dusk', 'Leaving the Country', 'Domestic Epigrams', Great Works website, June
poems: 'Unpopular Song', 'Facing Death', nth position website, July
poems: 'The False Perspectives', 'What Lies Sleeping', 'The Bays', Shearsman no. 56, September
poems: 'Deep North', 'After Bansui', 'Silence Revisited', Emerging from Absence: An Archive of Japan in English-Language Verse website, September
translation: 'When I was at my Most Beautiful' by Noriko Ibaragi, Poetry Ireland Review no. 77, November
translations: 'A Holiday Place' (1) and 'Translating Char' by Vittorio Sereni, Translation and Modernism special issue ed. A. Piette, Literature and Translation no. 12 (Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press)
essay: 'Translating Sereni', Translation and Modernism special issue ed. A. Piette, Literature and Translation no. 12 (Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press)
essay: 'Tom Raworth and the Pop Art Explosion', Tom Raworth Special Issue, The Gig nos. 13-14, June
essay: 'Thom Gunn's Sense of the Movement', Metre no. 14, summer
article: 'Very Shrinking Behaviour: William Empson's Poetic Collaboration with C. Hatakeyama', TLS no. 5233, 18 July
review: 'Laugh, damn you!', [on The Orchards of Syon by Geoffrey Hill], Tears in the Fence no. 34, spring
review: 'Taking the Low Road', [on Clearances by Mairi MacInnes], Sewanee Review vol. 66 no. 2, spring
review: 'Small Change', [on A World Perhaps: New and Selected Poems by John Lucas and The Whitworth Gun by John Whitworth], The Guardian 22 February
review: 'Survivor's Art', [on From a Diary of Non-Events by Michael Hamburger, A Puzzling Harvest: Collected Poems 1955-2000 by Harry Guest, Under the Breath and One Another by Peter Dale, New and Selected Poems by A. Alvarez, and The Return of the Cranes by John Heath-Stubbs], The Guardian 19 April
review: 'Painters of the Forth Bridge' [on The Light Trap by John Burnside, Madame Fifi's Farewell and Other Poems by Gerry Cambridge, On the Tip of my Tongue by Robert Crawford, and The Big Bumper Book of Troy by W. N. Herbert], TLS no. 5228, 13 June
review: 'A Friendly Exchange' [on A Report from the Border: New and Rescued Poems by Anne Stevenson, and The Way You Say the World: A Celebration for Anne Stevenson ed. J. Lucas and M. Simpson], TLS no. 5229, 20 June
review: 'In Human Camouflage' [on For and After by Christopher Reid], TLS no. 5243, 26 September
memoir: 'Becoming a Reader', The Reader no. 13, September
letter: 'Ice Cream with Empson', TLS no. 5247, 24 October
interviewed: on Angela Heslop's Artwaves programme , BBC Radio Merseyside, 20 and 22 March
interviewed: 'A Sense of Process: Kate Price talking to Peter Robinson', Salt vol. no. 17, summer
interviewed: 'Peter Robinson talks to Adam Piette', Tears in the Fence no. 36, autumn

2004

poetry: L'Attaccapanni e altre poesie trad. l'autore con Ornella Trevisan, postfazione di Paolo Lagazzi (Milano: Moretti & Vitali), March
prose: Untitled Deeds (Cambridge and Perth: Salt Publications), January
poem: 'White Lines', Metre no. 15, spring
poem: 'Real Times', Agenda vol. 40 nos. 1-3, May
poem: 'What Have You', TLS no. 5277, 21 May 2004
poem: 'Facing Death', In the criminal's cabinet: An Anthology of poetry and fiction ed. V. Stevenson and T. Swift (London: nth position), December
poem: 'The Empire of Light', Poetry Review vol 94 no. 3, autumn
poem: 'The Last Resort', fourW no. 15, november
poems: 'There Again', 'Unfaithful Translations', 'The Happiness Plant', 'Languages of Weather', 'Alien Registration', Poetry Ireland Review no. 78, January
poems: 'The Blue Shelters', 'Come to Grief', 'Under the Bridge', 'The Gist of It' , Big City Lit special issue on writing from Japan, April
poems: 'Transit Lounge' 'The Red Dusk', 'All Unawares', Fire no. 23, May
poems: 'Posthumous Seaside', 'Stranded', 'All Unawares', 'As Like as Not', 'Raubkunst', and 'The Quick Way', Matrix no. 67, July
poems: 'Furniture Music, Musical Chairs', 'A Quiet Day', 'Hearing Difficulties', 'Raubkunst', 'In a Fog', 'Leaving the Country', Jacket no. 25
poems: 'Drawing a Line' 'The Beaten Track', 'Naturally Enough', nthposition website, November
translations: 'Note' by Pierre Reverdy, 'After Shakespeare' by Rolf Dieter Brinkmann, 'Cinema Leaves' by Rafael Alcides, and 16 others, Kawauchi Review no. 3, March
translations: poems by Saba, Ungaretti, Sereni, Fortini, Erba, et al. in The Faber Book of 20th Century Italian Poems ed. J. McKendrick (London: Faber and Faber, 2004), July
translations: Eleven poems by Luciano Erba, Modern Poetry in Translation series 3 no. 1, July
translations: Six poems and 'Self-Portrait' by Vittorio Sereni, Poetry Ireland Review no. 80, September
translation: 'The Goodbyes' by Luciano Erba, TLS no. 5294, 17 September
essay: 'Dependence in the Poetry of W. S. Graham', W.S. Graham: Speaking Towards You, ed. H. Jones and R. Pite (Liverpool: Liverpool University Press), May
essay: 'Chiyoko Hatakeyama's Correspondence with William Empson', Yearbook of Miyagi Gakuin for 2003, July
essay: '"A blank to me": Thomas Hardy and the Loss of Meaning', Shiron no. 42, December
essay: 'The Poetry of Luciano Erba', Modern Poetry in Translation series 3 no. 1, July
essay: '"A changed other person": W. S. Graham's New Collected Poems', Poetry Review vol. 94 no. 2, summer
essay: 'Vittorio Sereni's Escape from Capture', Poetry Ireland Review no. 80, September
essay: '"This Fiction of an Occupation": Mr Boffin's Encounter with Blight', The Dickens Fellowship Japan Chapter Journal no. 27, October
essay: 'C. Hatakeyama [Trans. W. E.]', PN Review 160, Nov-Dec
review: 'Robinson's Reply' [on 4 books by and about Weldon Kees] Notre Dame Review no. 17, January
review: 'Loving his Food' [on God in France: A Paris Sequence 1994-1998 by Harry Clifton], Agenda vol. 40 nos. 1-3, May
review: 'So Good So Far' [on Between Here and There by Sinéad Morrissey], Agenda vol. 40 nos. 1-3, May
review: 'In the Reader's Hands' [on Collected Poems by Lee Harwood], TLS 25 November
interviewed: '"A tourist in your other country": Peter Robinson in conversation with Peter Carpenter', Poetry Ireland Review no. 78, January
interviewed: 'Peter Robinson discusses his poetry with Steve Clark', Jacket no. 25, March
interviewed: on Ian Macmillan's The Verb programme , BBC Radio 3, 27 March

2005

editor: Mairi MacInnes: A Tribute (Nottingham: Shoestring Press), January
criticism: Twentieth Century Poetry: Selves and Situations (Oxford: Oxford University Press), January
poems: 'York Notes', 'Untitled', Mairi MacInnes: A Tribute (Nottingham: Shoestring Press), January
poems: 'Frost Shadows', 'Not Lost', The Reader no. 19. September
poems: 'The Quick Way', 'English Abroad', 'The Last Resort', 'Disorientation', English summer
poems: 'From the World', 'Holding World', 'All in Our Day', Moving Worlds June
poems: 'There are Avenues', parts 9-12, Poetry Ireland Review no. 82, March
poems: 'There are Avenues', parts 1, 3, 10. 12, Notre Dame Review no. 21, December
poems: 'Mentioned in Dispatches', Agenda American issue, autumn
translations: 'A First-Degree Equation' by Luciano Erba and 'A Holiday Place' (6 ) by Vittorio Sereni in Agenda translation issue, January
translations: 'La Grande Jeanne', 'Closing a Trunk Once More', 'I Live Thirty Metres from the Ground', 'End of the Holidays', 'One of the Things' by Luciano Erba, Fire no. 25
translations: 'Toronto Saturday Night' by Vittorio Sereni, and 'Far Beyond the Frozen Seas' by Luciano Erba, in Writing: A Literary Review, January
essay: 'John Tranter and Tradition', Agenda (Australian issue), vol. 41 nos. 1-2, spring
essay: ‘Translation and Self-Accusation: Vittorio Sereni’s “momento psicologico”’, Agenda (American Issue), vol. 41 no. 3-4, December
essay: ‘The Sound Sense of Poetry: Reading Techniques’, English Literature Review [Kyoto] no. 49, December
review: 'Have a Care' [on The Faber Book of Twentieth-Century Italian Poems ed. J. McKendrick] Poetry Review January
review: 'Have You No Homes?' [on Under the Influence by Bill Manhire], PN Review 161, Jan-Feb
review: 'Deaths of the Poets' [on Contemporary Korean Poetry], PN Review 163, May-June
review: ‘Sleeve of Europe’ [on Selected Poems and Nonetheless by Peter Sirr] Times Literary Supplement
review:'The Way We Die Now' [on Denis O'Driscoll's New and Selected Poems], Poetry Ireland Review no. 83, summer
review: 'Romantics and Foreigners' [on David Constantine's Collected Poems and A Living Language], Poetry Ireland Review no. 83, summer
review: ‘Smacks at Auden’ [on Randall Jarrell on W. H. Auden], PN Review 166, vol. 32 no. 2, Nov-Dec
interviewer: 'Mairi MacInnes in Conversation', Mairi MacInnes: A Tribute (Nottingham: Shoestring Press), January

2006

poetry: Ghost Characters, Shoestring Press, January
poetry: There are Avenues, Brodie Press, March
translation: Selected Poetry and Prose of Vittorio Sereni, University of Chicago Press, October
interviews: Talk about Poetry: Conversations on the Art, Shearsman Books, November
poems: ‘The Reproduction of Winter’, ‘Platt Fields’, ‘Naturally Enough’, Critical Quarterly
poem: ‘Mortuary Passport’, Shearsman
aphorisms: ‘Other Trespasses’, Jacket no. 29
aphorisms: three from ‘Untitled Deeds’ in The Bloodaxe Book of Poetry Quotations ed. Dennis O’Driscoll
essay: ‘Wallace Stevens and British Poetry in the 1950s’, Poetica no. 64
review: [on two books by Marjorie Perloff], Studies in English Literature (Tokyo)
review: Collection of essays on Romanticism (Tokyo)
review: New Collected Poems of Roy Fisher, Notre Dame Review
review: Collected Poems of Jean Valentine, Poetry Ireland Review
review: ‘Here Comes (Almost) Everybody’, The Bloodaxe Book of Poetry Quotations ed. Dennis O’Driscoll, Poetry Ireland Review; also made available on the Poetry Daily website [ ].

2007

translation: The Greener Meadow: Selected Poems of Luciano Erba, Princeton University Press, January; featured on the Poetry Daily website in August, winner of the 2008 John Florio Prize
criticism: The Salt Companion to Peter Robinson ed. Adam Piette and Katy Price (Cambridge: Salt Publications), May
poems: ‘The House Guest’, ‘Enigmas of August’, Poetry Ireland Review no. 89, April
poems: ‘Unheimlich Leben’, ‘Raubkunst’, Agenda vol. 42 nos 3-4, June
poems: ‘Sound Advice’, ‘Huis Clos’, ‘Evacuation Drill’, Route 57, July
poems: ‘Posthumous Seaside’, [ ], Fire November
poem: ‘On the Mobile’, Speaking English: Poems for John Lucas ed. Andy Croft (Nottingham: Five Leaves Publications), June
poem: ‘Ratifying Kyoto’, Notre Dame Review no. 24, July
poem: ‘Ratifying Kyoto’, Agenda vol. 43 no. 1, November
translation: ‘Travellers’ by Luciano Erba, Times Literary Supplement no. [ ], 11 May
aphorisms: entry and samples in Geary’s Guide to the World’s Great Aphorists ed. James Geary (New York: Bloomsbury), October
essay: ‘“Down in the terraces between the targets”: Civilians’, The Oxford Handbook to British and Irish War Poetry ed. Tim Kendall (Oxford: Oxford University Press), March
essay: ‘Captain Benwick’s Reading’, Essays in Criticism vol. 57 no. 2, April
essay: ‘Rilke, thou art translated’, Agenda, A Reconsideration of Rainer Maria Rilke, vol. 42 nos. 3-4 Spring 2007, pp. 153-63.
essay: ‘C. Hatakeyama and W. E.’, Some Versions of Empson ed. Matthew Bevis (Oxford: Oxford University Press), October
essay: ‘Wittgenstein’s Aesthetics and Revision’, Inspiration and Technique: Ancient to Modern Views on Beauty and Art ed. John Roe and Michele Stanco (Zurich: Peter Lang), pp. 261-76 November
review: ‘Grace Abounding’ [on Gael Turnbull’s Collected Poems], Poetry Ireland Review no. 89, April
review: ‘Exact as Horror’ [on Elizabeth Bishop’s Edgar Allan Poe & the Jukebox: Uncollected Poems , Drafts, and Fragments], Notre Dame Review no. 24, July
review: ‘Insider Trading’ [on books from the Worple Press by Iain Sinclair, Beverly Brie Bahic, and Elizabeth Cook], Poetry Ireland Review no. 90, November
review: ‘No Apologies and No Prizes’ [on The Collected Poems of Ted Berrigan], Jacket no. 34, about 11 printed pages: [http://jacketmagazine.com/34/robinson-berrigan.shtml] November
interview: ‘Peter Robinson in Conversation with Belinda Cooke’ [excerpt], Agenda vol. 43 no. 1, November
broadcast: interviewed for ‘Son of a Preacher Man’, BBC Radio 4, presenter Darkus Howe, producer Tom Alban, August
broadcast: ‘English Abroad’, ‘Not Lost’, on The Verb, BBC Radio 3, presenter Ian McMillan, producer Nicola Holloway, December

2008

poetry: The Look of Goodbye: Poems 2001-2003, Shearsman Books, January
poems: ‘Graffiti Service’, ‘At the Institute’, Jacket no. 35, March
poems: ‘World Enough’, ‘Huntley & Palmers’, English May
poems: ‘165 King’s Road’, ‘Owning the Problem’, Insert Your Life Story Here; University of Reading Creative Arts Anthology 2008, June
poems: ‘Peripheral Visions’, ‘Like a Foreign Country’, ‘Clear as Daylight’, Agenda October
poems: ‘In the Playground’, ‘Some Exercise’, ‘Cemetery Junction’ The Reader November
poems: ‘Graveyard Life’, ‘True Blank’, ‘A Period Sky’, Earls Court November
poems: ‘Huntley & Palmers’, ‘Graffiti Service’, ‘Ode to Debt’, Fresh Graffiti: Instant Anthology (Two Rivers Press) October
poem: ‘Pension Scheme’, Poetry Ireland Review no. 93, April
poem: ‘Recovered Memory’, Blackbox Manifold July
poem: ‘Ode to Debt’, The Warwick Review June
poem: ‘Otterspool Prom’, Times Literary Supplement June 5th
poem: ‘Mortuary Passport’ [in German Translation], Neue Rundschau vol. 119 no. 2, September
poem: ‘Double Portrait’, Notre Dame Review Winter
translations: ‘Eight Poems from the German’ by Goethe, Heine, Rilke, Bachmann, and Brinkmann, Fire Spring
translations: Two poems by Luciano Erba, Poetry Ireland Review no. 95, October
translation: ‘Arandora’ by Marcello Fois, translated with Ornella Trevisan, the text for an Oratorio by Fabrizio Festa, performed at the Maritime Museum in Liverpool, 2 July
article: ‘Teaching English Literature in Japan’, English Association Newsletter Spring
article: ‘Telling Tales and Showing Signs’ [on Bob Dylan’s Tell Tale Signs CDs] The Bridge no. 32, Winter
essay: ‘Twists in the Plotting: Bernard Spencer’s Second Book’, Book History no. 62, May [dated 2007]
essay: ‘Bernard Spencer and The London Magazine’, The London Magazine December
review: [on W. S. Merwin, Selected Poems], Times Literary Supplement March
review: ‘A Proper Caution’ [on Matthew Bevis, The Art of Eloquence], Cambridge Quarterly August
review: [on Mike Stocks (trans.), Sonnets: Giuseppe Gioacchino Belli], The Dark Horse Summer
review: ‘Authenticity and Grace’, [on books by Janet Frame, Bernard O’Donoghue, and Alison Brackenbury], Poetry London no. 60, Summer
review: ‘Showing and Telling’, [on books by Eamon Grennan and Ciaran Berry], Poetry Ireland Review no. 94, summer
broadcast: discussing loan words in Japanese on The Verb, BBC Radio 3, presenter Ian McMillan, producer Nicola Holloway, April

2009

poetry: Ekphrastic Marriage [with three artworks by Andrew McDonald] (Reading: Pine Wave Press), January
aphorisms: Spirits of the Stair: Selected Aphorisms, (Exeter: Shearsman Books), September
catalogue: Bernard Spencer at Reading: Catalogue of the Bernard Spencer Collection at the University of Reading, compiled by Verity Hunt, introduction by Peter Robinson (Reading: University of Reading), October
editor: Bernard Spencer (1909-1962): A Centenary Supplement, edited with an introduction by Peter Robinson, Agenda: Fiftieth Anniversary Issue, autumn
poems: ‘Boyle Family Album’, ‘Rückenfiguren’, The London Magazine [Pilot Asian issue], Winter
poems: ‘Pension Scheme’, ‘Clear as Daylight’, ‘Otterspool Prom’ Signals 5, Spring: http://www.signalsmagazine.co.uk/5/robinson.htm
poems: ‘Personal Credit’, ‘English Nettles’, Stimulus Respond March
poems: ‘Credit Rating’, ‘True Blank’, Nth Position April: http://www.nthposition.com/creditratingamptrue.php
poems: ‘Westwood Dusk’, ‘Owning the Problem’, ‘Mortgaged Time’, Shearsman Magazine 79-80, Spring
poems: ‘English Nettles’, ‘Cemetery Junction’, R.U. Taking the Biscuit?: University of Reading Creative Arts Anthology 2009, June
poems: ‘World Enough’, ‘165 Kings Road’, ‘Reading Gaol’, Fulcrum no. 7
poems: ‘Ekphrastic Marriage’, ‘Graveyard Life’, Gallous
poems: ‘Life in Glimpses’, ‘Credit Flow’, Cortland Review no. 45, November
poems: ‘Rhyparographia’, ‘By a Wayside Shrine,’ ‘Graveyard Life’, Boomslang no. 3, December
poem: ‘A Tribute’, Notre Dame Review: The First Ten Years, ed. John Matthias and William O’Rourke (South Bend: Notre Dame University Press), February
poem: ‘Huntley & Palmer’, Windows Project, Wokingham, summer
poem: ‘To the Quick’, The Dark Horse summer
poem: ‘Fence Palings’, Poetry Ireland Review no. 99, autumn
poem: ‘120 Addington Road’, Agenda: Fiftieth Anniversary Issue, autumn
poem: ‘Otterspool Prom’, The Reader Christmas issue
poem: ‘Cemetery Junction’, Proceedings of the Luigi Meneghello Conference ed. Daniela La Penna [ ].
aphorisms: ‘Practical Utopianism’, Notre Dame Review autumn
essay: ‘Readings will grow erratic’ in Larkin’s ‘Deceptions’, Cambridge Quarterly summer
essay: ‘Bernard Spencer’s “Boat Poem”’, English autumn
essay: ‘John Tranter and Tradition’, The Salt Companion to John Tranter ed. Rod Mengham (Salt Publishing)
article: ‘Fellows’ Poetry Prize 2008’, English vol. 58 no. 221, summer, pp. 112-15.
article: ‘Bob Dylan: Back in the Rain’, Eyewear [http://toddswift.blogspot.com/2009/07/guest-review-robinson-on-dylan.html], Friday, 3 July
article: ‘Poet on his Work: Behind “Otterspool Prom”’, The Reader Christmas issue
review: ‘Borrowed Armour’, [on Collected Poems of Ciaran Carson] Poetry Ireland Review no. 97, spring
review: ‘Love Translated’, [on books by Matthew Mead and John Welch], Poetry London no. 62, spring
review: ‘Ringing the Changes’, [on Together Through Life by Bob Dylan], The Bridge summer
review: ‘Old Incurables’, [on Collected Poems by Ian Hamilton], Poetry London no. 64, autumn
interview: ‘What sorts of poetry were you reading?’ conversation with Ian Britton, The Use of English vol. 60 no. 3 Summer 2009

2010

poetry: English Nettles and Other Poems (Reading: Two Rivers Press), limited edition with woodcuts by Sally Castle, Spring
criticism: Poetry & Translation: The Art of the Impossible (Liverpool: Liverpool University Press), early Spring
editor: An Unofficial Roy Fisher ed. Peter Robinson (Exeter: Shearsman Books), June
poem: ‘Unearned Visuals’, An Unofficial Roy Fisher ed. Peter Robinson (Exeter: Shearsman Books), June
essay: ‘Thomas Hardy’, Cambridge Companion to the English Poets ed. Claude Rawson (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press)
essay: ‘Speaking Personally: John Matthias’, Salt Companion to John Matthias ed. Joe Doerr (Cambridge: Salt Publishing), June