READ POEMS:

Nightsinging in a Time of Plague, commissioned by The Poetry Society for the Bicentenary of John Keats’ death, February 23^rd 2021

‘Moonlight Sonata’ from Beethoven Variations, Guardian 2020

‘Salon Noir‘, from Emerald, in Prac Crit, with Introduction and Interview by Declan Ryan, 2018

‘Clast’, from Emerald, in Poetry Review, and Ruth’s piece about the poem in Poetry Review’s ‘Behind the Poem’ series, 2018

‘The Electrification of Beth Shalom’, Guardian 2014

‘The Cello’, New Yorker, 2012

‘Making an Oud in Nazareth‘, New Yorker 2008

‘Sunrise over Bethlehem’, Financial Times, 2016, from Tidings

‘Icicles Round a Tree in Dumfriesshire’, Rembrandt Would Have Loved You, 1998

‘Writing to Onegin’ (after a scene from Pushkin), from Voodoo Shop, 2002

‘Tiger Drinking at Forest Pool’, from The Soho Leopard, 2004

‘Two Handled Jug’ & ‘Lone Ranger’ (later titled ‘Ripples on New Grass’). London Review of Books 2011

‘Writing a Postcard After a War’, London Review of Books 2009

‘The Sea Will Do Us All Good’, on Annie Darwin’s illness and death, from Darwin – A Life in Poems, 2009, London Review of Books 2009

‘Like Giving to a Blind Man Eyes’, ‘Plankton’, ‘Algae from the Arctic’, ‘The Miser’, and ‘On Not Thinking About Variation in Tortoise-Shell’, from Darwin – A Life in Poems’, Nature Magazine 2009

‘Revelation’ London Review of Books 2011

‘The Forest, The Corrupt Official, and a Bowl of Penis Soup’, London Review of Books 2004

‘Four Alligator Poems’ from The Soho Leopard, London Review of Books 2004

‘The Soho Leopard’, Scottish Poetry Library, 2004

‘Second Chance’ and ‘Gorey Bay 1933’ (from Emerald), Compass Magazine 2018

‘Mary’s Tapestry, Elizabeth’s Spinet’ (from The Soho Leopard), Poems About the V & A 2002

‘Extract from the Travels of Ibn Jubayr,’ and ‘Bladderwrack’, Asymptote 2011

‘Herodotus in Egypt Remembers Delos’, from Summer Snow 1990

‘Trial’, from Fusewire 1996