Essays and Critical Publications:

2024 “Hennecker’s Ditch Revisited” P. N. Review 279 Vol. 59. No. 1. September-October 2024.

2021 “Lyric Form in the Poetry of Seamus Heaney”. In Seamus Heaney in Context Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.

2017 “Poetic Hybridity in Patrick McGuinness’s Other People’s Countries in Matthew Jarvis ed. Devolutionary Readings: English-Language Poetry and Contemporary Wales (Oxford: Peter Lang, 2017)

2013 “Auden in Ireland” in Peter Robinson ed. The Oxford Handbook of Contemporary British and Irish Poetry (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2013)

 2012 “Engagements with the Public Sphere in the Poetry of Paul Durcan and Brendan Kennelly” in Brearton and Gillis eds. The Oxford Handbook of Modern Irish Poetry (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2012), pp. 403-418.

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2011 “Poem and Machine” The Reader 42 June 2011, pp. 57-63

2010 “Staging Second Thoughts: The Poetry of Anne Stevenson” in Angela Leighton ed. Voyages Over Voices: Critical Essays on Anne Stevenson. (Liverpool, Liverpool University Press) pp. 71-82

2008 “Homogenous Collectives in the poetry of Ciaran Carson” in Ian Sansom and W. R. Irvine eds. From the Small Back Room: A Festschrift for Ciaran Carson (Belfast: Netherlea Press, 2008) pp. 156-159

2008 “A Careful Remove: R. F. Langley”. Oxford Poetry, 12 (3) Summer, 2008 pp. 121-124

2008 “‘Unlikely as a Foetus’: The Influence of Sylvia Plath on Seamus Heaney”

British and Irish Contemporary Poetry 1 (1) Spring 2008, pp. 83-91.

2007 “On Eoghan Walls” in W. R. Irvine ed. Incertus (Belfast: Netherlea Press, 2007) pp. 161-164

2006 “Lyric Adaptations: Fenton, Raine, Reid, Armitage, Duffy” in Neil Corcoran ed. The Cambridge Companion to Twentieth Century English Poetry (Cambridge University Press, 2007), pp. 245-258.

2005 “David Jones Now” Poetry Wales 41 (2) Autumn 2005, pp. 19-22.

2004 “‘All the Answers’: The Influence of Auden on Kavanagh’s Poetic Development” New Hibernia Review 8 (1) Spring 2004, pp. 21-34.

2004 “Muldoon and Pragmatism” in Peter McDonald and Tim Kendall eds., Paul Muldoon: Critical Essays (Liverpool: Liverpool University Press, 2004), pp. 96-109

2003 “Fighting for Balance: The Influence of Ted Hughes on Michael Longley” Colby Quarterly 34 (3) September 2003 pp. 258-269.

1994 “Wilful Inconsistency: Derek Mahon's Verse-Letters” Irish University Review 24 (1) Spring/Summer 1994

Long Review Articles:

2013 “Unititled” [review of Nathan Hamilton ed. Dear World and Everyone In It] Edinburgh Review 138 pp. 113-119]

2010 “Slanderous Tongues” [review of Daniel Williams ed. Slanderous Tongues: Essays on Welsh Poetry in English 1970-2005] New Welsh Review 89 Autumn 2010, pp. 41-47.

2009 “Untitled” [James Liddy, Askeaton Sequence and Wexford Arcady] An Sionnach 5.1 & 5.2 Spring and Fall 2009, pp. 302-306 <http://muse.jhu.edu/journals/an_sionnach/v005/5.1.redmond.pdf>

2006 “Picture These” [Mark Ford and Trevor Winkfield eds., The New York Poets II] Times Literary Supplement September 8 2006

2001 “Perish the Thought” [Derek Mahon, Selected Poems] London Review of Books February 8 2001

2000 “Thirtysomething Ireland” Bullán 5 (2) Winter 1999/ Spring 2000

1999 “By Their Errata Shall Ye Know Them” [Jorie Graham, The Errancy] Thumbscrew 12 Winter 1998/9

1998 “Send No Postcards, Take No Pictures” [Kenneth Koch, Lavinia Greenlaw etc] London Review of Books 21 May 1998

1997 “War Against the Grown-Ups” [John Burnside, A Normal Skin and The Dumb House] London Review of Books August 21 1997

1997 “Backing into the Outback” [Les Murray, Subhuman Redneck Poems] Jacket (1) 1997 <http://www.jacket.zip.com.au/jacket01/redmond.html>

1996 “Ringmaster” [Christopher Reid, Expanded Universes] London Review of Books November 28 1996

1996 “Accidents of Priority” [John Ashbery Can You Hear, Bird, Jorie Graham The Dream of the Unified Field and others] London Review of Books August 22 1996

1995 “Fading Out” [Michael Longley, The Ghost Orchid] London Review of Books November 2 1995

1995 “Stirring Your Tea is Only a Normal Activity if You Stop Doing it Relatively Quickly” [Pauline Stainer, Gerard Woodward etc.] London Review of Books July 6 1995

1994 “Indicting the Exquisite: Paul Muldoon's The Annals of Chile” Thumbscrew 1 Winter 1994

Short Reviews:

2017 “Untitled” [Emily Blewitt This is not a Rescue] New Welsh Review 17 Summer 2017

2012 “Untitled” [Allan Peterson As Much As] The Wolf 27 Winter 2012

2011 “Untitled” [David Kinloch Finger of a Frenchman] Edinburgh Review133 Winter 2011

2011 “Untitled” [Kay Ryan Odd Blocks: Selected and New Poems] Poetry Matters December 2011 <http://www.towerpoetry.org.uk/component/content/article/483>

2011 “Untitled” [Oliver Reynolds Hodge] New Welsh Review 92 Summer 2011

 2009 “Untitled” [Damian Walford Davies Suit of Lights] New Welsh Review 86 Winter 2009

2009 “The Thereness of Things” [Vona Groarke Lament for Art O'Leary] P. N. Review 70 July 2009

2009 “Untitled” [Robert Minhinnick King Driftwood] Poetry Wales 44 (3) Winter 08/09

2008 “Making History” [Hill, Hamburger, Kinsella] Poetry Review 98 (1) Spring 2008

2007 “Untitled” [Robert Saxton Local Honey] Poetry Matters October 2007 <http://www.towerpoetry.org.uk/poetry-matters/oct2007/saxton.html>

2007 “Untitled” [Marilyn Hacker Essays on Departure] Poetry Matters December 2006 <http://www.towerpoetry.org.uk/poetry-matters/december2006/hacker.html>

2006 “Untitled” [Seamus Heaney District and Circle] Poetry Wales 42 (2) Autumn 2006

2006 “Untitled” [Ian Gregson Call Centre Love Song] Poetry Wales 42 (1) Summer 2006

2006 “Untitled” [James Fenton Selected Poems] Poetry Matters May 2006 <http://www.towerpoetry.org.uk/poetry-matters/may2006/fenton.html>

2006 “In the Heaven of Lost Futures” [Eavan Boland New Collected Poems] The Guardian February 18, 2006 <http://books.guardian.co.uk/reviews/poetry/0,,1712054,00.html>

2005 “Untitled” [Sheenagh Pugh The Movement of Bodies] New Welsh Review 70 Winter 2005

2005 “Untitled” [Alice Oswald Woods etc.] Poetry Matters June 2005  <http://www.towerpoetry.org.uk/poetry-matters/june2005/oswald.html>

2005 “Untitled” [Nick Laird To A Fault] Poetry Matters February 2005 <http://www.towerpoetry.org.uk/poetry-matters/february2005/laird.html>

2005 “Words Not to be Avoided” [Neil Astley ed. Being Alive] The Irish Times January 29, 2005

2004 “Body Building” [Michael Symmons Roberts Corpus] Poetry Review 94 (3) Autumn 2004

2004 “World of Interiors” [Robert Saxton Manganese] Poetry Review 94 (2) Summer 2004

2004 “The Man in the Cloak” [James Clarence Mangan Selected Poems] The Guardian February 7 2004

2004 “That Contemporary Tone of Voice” [Philip Gross Mappa Mundi] Poetry Review 93 (4) Winter 2003/4

2003 “Is There Still Life on Mars?” [Christopher Reid For and After] The Guardian November 29, 2003

2003 “Dangerous Tocsins” [Hollis and Keegan eds. 101 Poems Against War] Metre 14 Autumn 2003

2003 “Mild Literary Necrophilia” [Ian Duhig The Lammas Hireling] Poetry Review 93 (2) Summer 2003

2003 “Thanks for Listening, People” [Sophie Hannah, John Whitworth and others] Poetry Review 93 (1) Spring 2003

2003 “Did You Pack this Bag Yourself?” [W. N. Herbert The Big Bumper Book of Troy] Poetry Review 92 (4) Winter 2002/3

2002 “A Walk through the Woods” [Merwin, Doty, and others] Poetry Review 92 (3) Autumn 2002

2002 “A Laureate of the Studiously Nondescript” [Andrew Motion Public Property] The Irish Times September 28 2002

2002 “Out of England” [Michael Hofmann Behind the Lines] Thumbscrew 20-21 Winter 2002

2002 “Point of Light” [Adrienne Rich Fox and Arts of the Possible] Poetry Review 92 (2) Summer 2002 <http://www.poetrysociety.org.uk/review/pr92-2/redmond.htm>

2002 “New Laddism” [Neil Rollinson, Desmond Graham, Andrew Zawacki] P.N.Review 28 (6) July-August 2002

2002 “Autocriticker” [Geoffrey Hill Speech! Speech!] Poetry Review 92 (1) Spring 2002

2001 “Distrusting the Self” [Paul Muldoon, Floyd Skloot, Wendy Cope] Poetry Ireland Review 71 Winter 2001

2001 “Making a Scene” [James Fenton The Strength of Poetry] Poetry Review 91 (3) Autumn 2001

2001 “Backyard Poetics” [Charles Wright Negative Blue] Thumbscrew 18 Spring 2001

2000 “Bloodbath” [Neil Astley ed. New Blood] Thumbscrew 15 Winter/Spring 2000 <http://www.bris.ac.uk/Depts/English/journals/thumbscr/thum_rev.html#redmond>

1998 “A Lesson in Verse” [Seamus Heaney Opened Ground] The Guardian September 19 1998

1997 “The Eternal Struggle” [Geoffrey Hill, Canaan] The Guardian October 10 1997

1997 “The Italian Auden” [W. H. Auden As I Walked Out One Evening and Thekla Clark Wystan and Chester] Thumbscrew 8 Summer 1997

1997 “Neighbourly Non-Sounds" [Miroslav Holub, Supposed To Fly] Times Literary Supplement March 28 1997

1996 “Scragged Nation" [Christopher Logue Selected Poems] The Guardian July 26 1996

1996 “Botanical Haven” [Louise Gluck The Wild Iris] Poetry Review 86 (2) Summer 1996

1995 “Shaded from the Light” [Elizabeth Bartlett Two Women Dancing: New and Selected Poems] Times Literary Supplement September 22 1995

1995 “Only Dissect” [Jeffrey Wainwright, The Red-Headed Pupil and Other Poems] Times Literary Supplement March 3 1995

1994 “Through the Hatch” [Michael Schmidt ed. New Poetries] Times Literary Supplement August 12 1994

1994 “The Irish for No” [Conor O’Callaghan The History of Rain] Oxford Poetry 8 (1) Summer 1994

1991 “Paul Muldoon, Madoc, A Mystery” Irish University Review 21(1) Spring /Summer 1991

Chapters in Books:

2002 “Michael Longley” in Jay Parini ed. British Writers, Supplement VIII New York: Charles Scribner’s, 2002 [10,000 words approx]

2002 “D. H. Lawrence” in Jay Parini ed. British Writers, Retrospective Supplement II New York: Charles Scribner’s, 2002 [10,000 words approx]

2001 “W. S. Graham” in Jay Parini ed. British Writers, Supplement VII New York: Charles Scribner’s Sons [10,000 words approx]