Reviews and critical articles
Poets of the Sixties 3: Robert Garioch. Lines Review. Spring 1967
The Poetry of George MacBeth. Scottish International. August 1968
Scottish Poetry in the Sixties. Akros 10: 28. 1975
In Memoriam: Robert Garioch. Chapman 31. Winter 1981/82
The Predicament of the Scottish Writer. Chapman 35/36. July 1983
Robert Garioch’s “Sisyphus”. Akros. October 1983
Scots and English. Chapman. Summer 1985
The “Greatness” of Hugh MacDiarmid. Dundee: Gairfish: Shibbolithos 1992
The Scottish Avant-garde in the 1960s. Dundee: Gairfish: McAvantgarde 1992
Ian Hamilton Finlay: A Window on the Early Work. Chapman 78/79. 1994
A poet you may want to know better: Richard Wilbur. Poetry London 37. Autumn 2000
Compelling Charm: Some reflections on Goethe’s move to Weimar: in J. Swift (ed) Disciplines, Fields and Change in Art Education vol 3: Art Therapy, Psychology and Sociology. Birmingham: ARTicle Press, Dept of Art, University of Central England. 2001
“Enlarged By What Estranges”: Reflections on a poem by Richard Wilbur. The Dark Horse 23. Summer 2009
“How shall the Race be Served?”: The Life of Edwin Morgan. The Dark Horse 26. Winter/Spring 2010/11
Handling Wildcats: Robert Garioch Reconsidered. The Dark Horse 31. Autumn/Winter 2013
Hidden Abysses of Feeling: Pascale Petit's The Zoo Father. In T. Dooley and M. Kapos (ed) The Best of Poetry London. Carcanet. 2014
Robin Fulton Macpherson: A note on the Scottish contribution. Poetry International (San Diego; online) 2014
Dante's "Two Suns": Reflections on the psychological sources of the Divine Comedy. International Journal of Psychoanalysis 98: 6, pp 1699-1717, December 2017
Richard Wilbur: Keeping a difficult balance. The Dark Horse 38. Winter 2017/2018
Dante's Psychological Comedy. Los Angeles Review of Books, 7 July 2019
When You Don't Have Forever: The poetry of Daniel Brown. New York: Parnassus Review 35, 1 & 2, August 2019
Dante, Duality, and the Function of Allegory. Raritan, XLI: 1. Summer 2021
George Mackay Brown: Re-writes and a Little Magazine. The Dark Horse, 44. Autumn/Winter 2021
Poets of the Sixties 3: Robert Garioch. Lines Review. Spring 1967
The Poetry of George MacBeth. Scottish International. August 1968
Scottish Poetry in the Sixties. Akros 10: 28. 1975
In Memoriam: Robert Garioch. Chapman 31. Winter 1981/82
The Predicament of the Scottish Writer. Chapman 35/36. July 1983
Robert Garioch’s “Sisyphus”. Akros. October 1983
Scots and English. Chapman. Summer 1985
The “Greatness” of Hugh MacDiarmid. Dundee: Gairfish: Shibbolithos 1992
The Scottish Avant-garde in the 1960s. Dundee: Gairfish: McAvantgarde 1992
Ian Hamilton Finlay: A Window on the Early Work. Chapman 78/79. 1994
A poet you may want to know better: Richard Wilbur. Poetry London 37. Autumn 2000
Compelling Charm: Some reflections on Goethe’s move to Weimar: in J. Swift (ed) Disciplines, Fields and Change in Art Education vol 3: Art Therapy, Psychology and Sociology. Birmingham: ARTicle Press, Dept of Art, University of Central England. 2001
“Enlarged By What Estranges”: Reflections on a poem by Richard Wilbur. The Dark Horse 23. Summer 2009
“How shall the Race be Served?”: The Life of Edwin Morgan. The Dark Horse 26. Winter/Spring 2010/11
Handling Wildcats: Robert Garioch Reconsidered. The Dark Horse 31. Autumn/Winter 2013
Hidden Abysses of Feeling: Pascale Petit's The Zoo Father. In T. Dooley and M. Kapos (ed) The Best of Poetry London. Carcanet. 2014
Robin Fulton Macpherson: A note on the Scottish contribution. Poetry International (San Diego; online) 2014
Dante's "Two Suns": Reflections on the psychological sources of the Divine Comedy. International Journal of Psychoanalysis 98: 6, pp 1699-1717, December 2017
Richard Wilbur: Keeping a difficult balance. The Dark Horse 38. Winter 2017/2018
Dante's Psychological Comedy. Los Angeles Review of Books, 7 July 2019
When You Don't Have Forever: The poetry of Daniel Brown. New York: Parnassus Review 35, 1 & 2, August 2019
Dante, Duality, and the Function of Allegory. Raritan, XLI: 1. Summer 2021
George Mackay Brown: Re-writes and a Little Magazine. The Dark Horse, 44. Autumn/Winter 2021